Two Sigma

Total investments

13

Average round size

42M

Portfolio companies

8

Rounds per year

0.59

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

2

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningBig DataData IntegrationConsumer Lending

Summary

In 2001 was created Two Sigma, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Personal Finance. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lending Club, Zymergen, Terray Therapeutics.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Two Sigma works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Two Sigma, startups are often financed by Jenny Rooke, Genoa Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Threshold, Tao Capital Partners, SoftBank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Two Sigma Ventures, True Ventures, Trans-Pacific Technology Fund (TPTF).

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.59
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Big Data (8)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Data Integration (6)
  • Biotechnology (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
625M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Distributional 14 Dec 2023 Seed 11M
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