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The Schmidt Family Foundation

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$977K
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.29
Lead investments 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Energy
  • Drones
  • Industrial
  • Robotics
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Palo Alto.

The top activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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 no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Water, Food and Beverage. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Saildrone, Nebia.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the The Schmidt Family Foundation, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, US Department of Energy, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vander Capital Partners, Tim Cook, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Social Capital, Lux Capital, Capricorn Investment Group.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enfuego Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Data Visualization
Freemium
Human Resources
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Semantic Search
$500K10 Sep 2020 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Saildrone

Artificial Intelligence
Drones
Industrial
Manufacturing
Marine Technology
Robotics
$2M31 Dec 2015 California, United States

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Environmental Engineering
Food and Beverage
Product Design
Water
Web Design
$120K01 Sep 2015 San Francisco, California, United States
News
BlocPower Raises $63 Million Series A to Green Urban Buildings and Creates Innovative Financing Solution Alongside the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group

– BlocPower announced a $63m Series A round.
– The round was led by American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, AccelR8 and The Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group.
– To date, the company has raised $68m from early anchor investors, including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, MaC Venture Capital, Exelon, New York Ventures of the Empire State Development Corporation, Echoing Green, and The Schmidt Family Foundation.
– The funding will enable BlocPower to expand and scale its inner-city energy retrofit projects across the U.S., create green jobs, improve quality of life for urban residents and save the planet.
– The company will soon offer Environmental Justice Impact Green Bonds to other institutional investors to help finance BlocPower’s future green retrofit projects.

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Total investments 5
Average round size 977K
Rounds per year 0.29
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 2
Group Appearance index 0.40

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enfuego Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Data Visualization
Freemium
Human Resources
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Semantic Search
$500K10 Sep 2020 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Saildrone

Artificial Intelligence
Drones
Industrial
Manufacturing
Marine Technology
Robotics
$2M31 Dec 2015 California, United States

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Environmental Engineering
Food and Beverage
Product Design
Water
Web Design
$120K01 Sep 2015 San Francisco, California, United States
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