Twilio

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

31

Average round size

51M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

1.94

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningMessagingSaaSSMSEnterprise SoftwareEducationBusiness Development

Summary

Twilio is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2008. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Francisco.

This organization was formed by Evan Cooke, Jeff Lawson, John Wolthuis.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6 partakers. Despite the Twilio, startups are often financed by Village Capital, Techstars Retail Accelerator, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Omidyar Network, Zendesk, The Nasiri Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Twilio.org Impact Fund, SustainVC, Series Change Investment.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Fast Forward, Edovo, Inspectorio Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, EdTech. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.94
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (15)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • SaaS (8)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
  • Messaging (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Colombia (1)
  • Zambia (2)
  • Brazil (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
248M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
3.18
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Terazo 26 May 2021 Software, Information Technology, Productivity Tools, Business Development Early Stage Venture 10M United States, Virginia, Richmond
Treble.ai 21 Jul 2022 Software, Artificial Intelligence Early Stage Venture 15M Valle del Cauca, Buenaventura, Colombia
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