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The Thiel Foundation

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 1.24
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Biotechnology
  • Therapeutics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Device
Summary

The Thiel Foundation appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2006. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco.

This The Thiel Foundation works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2012. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Thiel Foundation, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, LAUNCH, Start-Up Chile. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Khosla Ventures, 1517 Fund, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Westcott LLC, Uncork Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Therapeutics, Biotechnology. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sweet, Envisagenics, Cafe X Technologies. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BRINC Drones

Aerospace
$55M01 Jan 2022 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Kisan Network

Agriculture
AgTech
Mobile
$3M30 Jan 2020 Gurugram, Haryana, India

Teal

Drones
Manufacturing
Product Design
Robotics
Software
02 Nov 2017 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Cafe X Technologies

Coffee
Mobile
Robotics
Software
$4M30 Jan 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Kisan Network

Agriculture
AgTech
Mobile
$100K21 Jun 2016 Gurugram, Haryana, India

Mobile
Mobile Devices
Personal Finance
Telecommunications
$850K15 Dec 2015 Detroit, Michigan, United States

gifs.com

Artificial Intelligence
Media and Entertainment
Video
Video Editing
15 Aug 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Fountain

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Recruiting
$1M18 May 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Magin

Apps
Mobile
Social Media
$271K01 Apr 2014 California, United States

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Total investments 21
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.24
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.48

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BRINC Drones

Aerospace
$55M01 Jan 2022 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Kisan Network

Agriculture
AgTech
Mobile
$3M30 Jan 2020 Gurugram, Haryana, India

Teal

Drones
Manufacturing
Product Design
Robotics
Software
02 Nov 2017 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Cafe X Technologies

Coffee
Mobile
Robotics
Software
$4M30 Jan 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Kisan Network

Agriculture
AgTech
Mobile
$100K21 Jun 2016 Gurugram, Haryana, India

Mobile
Mobile Devices
Personal Finance
Telecommunications
$850K15 Dec 2015 Detroit, Michigan, United States

gifs.com

Artificial Intelligence
Media and Entertainment
Video
Video Editing
15 Aug 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Fountain

Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Recruiting
$1M18 May 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Magin

Apps
Mobile
Social Media
$271K01 Apr 2014 California, United States
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