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Twitter

Founders Biz Stone Evan Williams Jack Dorsey Noah Glass

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$614M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.94
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 5
Key employees 10

Areas of investment

  • Social Media
  • Mobile Apps
  • eSports
  • Software
  • Internet
Summary

Twitter is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded 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.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Twitter, startups are often financed by Brad Kotansky, William Ackman, Novak Djokovic. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Verizon Ventures, Trustbridge Partners, Shunwei Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Softbank Ventures Asia, CE Ventures (CEIIF).

The current fund was established by Biz Stone, Conor McLaughlin, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass.

The typical startup value when the investment from Twitter is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Sports, Social Network. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Israel. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PlaySight Interactive.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

50mMidas

Content
Content Creators
Media and Entertainment
Social Media Advertising
Video
$1M10 Oct 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

OpenNode

Bitcoin
Mobile Payments
Point of Sale
Transaction Processing
$20M08 Feb 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Facemoji

3D Technology
Computer Vision
Digital Entertainment
eSports
$3M07 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

PlaySight Interactive

Analytics
eSports
Media and Entertainment
Sports
Video Streaming
$11M02 Jun 2017 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

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Total investments 16
Average round size 614M
Rounds per year 0.94
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

50mMidas

Content
Content Creators
Media and Entertainment
Social Media Advertising
Video
$1M10 Oct 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

OpenNode

Bitcoin
Mobile Payments
Point of Sale
Transaction Processing
$20M08 Feb 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Facemoji

3D Technology
Computer Vision
Digital Entertainment
eSports
$3M07 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

PlaySight Interactive

Analytics
eSports
Media and Entertainment
Sports
Video Streaming
$11M02 Jun 2017 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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