The MasterCard Foundation

Total investments

22

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

1.22

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

1

Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileE-LearningMachine LearningHigher EducationMobile PaymentsEducationBig Data

Summary

The MasterCard Foundation appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2006. The venture was found in North America in Canada. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Toronto.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Analytics. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Africa. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline JUMO, Zoona

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the The MasterCard Foundation, startups are often financed by Quona Capital, Omidyar Network, Yahoo. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are International Finance Corporation, Google.org. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by PROPARCO, Vostok Emerging Finance, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
8
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.22
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Education (7)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • FinTech (5)
  • Mobile (5)
  • E-Learning (5)
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Investments by region
  • South Africa (6)
  • United States (1)
  • Nigeria (2)
  • Kenya (5)
  • Rwanda (2)
  • Show 3 more
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
13M
Group Appearance index
0.36
Avg. company exit year
11

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Latest deals

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