U.S. Department Of Defense
Government organization
Active
Washington, United States
189
18M
171
2.45
72
0.09
54
- Areas of investment
Summary
U.S. Department of Defense is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1947. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Washington.
The fund was created by Reina Staley.
Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from U.S. Department of Defense is 5-10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. This U.S. Department of Defense works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the U.S. Department of Defense, startups are often financed by National Institutes of Health, RMI Partners, Innovacorp. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by National Institutes of Health, Taiwania Capital, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical Device, Pharmaceutical. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 16-20 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sikorsky Aircraft, Pixelligent, SPR Therapeutics.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 189
- Lead investments
- 72
- Exits
- 54
- Rounds per year
- 2.45
- Follow on index
- 0.09
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (86)
- Health Care (61)
- Medical (49)
- Manufacturing (26)
- Pharmaceutical (24) Show 142 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (163)
- Canada (10)
- South Korea (1)
- Luxembourg (1)
- Germany (1) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2023
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 6
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 32
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 332M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.17
- Avg. company exit year
- 17
- Avg. multiplicator
- 5.01
- Strategy success index
- 0.80
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CausalTwin | 21 Oct 2022 | Seed | 37K |
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