Target

Total investments

9

Average round size

31M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.15

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

2

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSupply Chain ManagementSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologySaaSLifestyleProduct DesignVideoQuality Assurance

Summary

Target appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1962. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Minneapolis.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Target works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Target the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Target, startups are often financed by Norwest Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau, Rainfall Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars, Matchstick Ventures, Techstars Retail Accelerator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Matchstick Ventures, Techstars, Right Side Capital Management.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Casper, Nexosis, Inspectorio. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, B2C. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.15
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (5)
  • Software (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Retail (4)
  • Quality Assurance (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
166M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Nexosis 01 Apr 2016 Software, Machine Learning, SaaS, Big Data, Developer Tools, Developer APIs, Predictive Analytics Seed 1M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
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