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The Dow Chemical Company

Founders Herbert Henry Dow

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Total investments 44
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 36
Rounds per year 0.35
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 13
Key employees 29

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Electronics
Summary

The Dow Chemical Company is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1897. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Midland. The company was established in North America in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2006. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Comparing to the other companies, this The Dow Chemical Company performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

We also calculated 28 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline GreatPoint Energy, Biolex Therapeutics, Fast Track Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Chemical, Semiconductor.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the The Dow Chemical Company, startups are often financed by Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Quaker BioVentures, Prelude Trust. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Prelude Trust, ARCH Venture Partners, TTP Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ARCH Venture Partners, 3i Group, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation.

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Total investments 44
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 0.35
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.89

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Robotics
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RainStor

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Software
$12M05 Oct 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Xtreme Power

Electronics
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
$29M27 Jul 2010 Texas, United States

RainStor

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Software
$7M10 Mar 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Pfenex

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$24M09 Dec 2009 San Diego, California, United States

nanoMR

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