U.S. Department of Education

Total investments

73

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

68

Rounds per year

1.66

Lead investments

37

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
E-LearningCommunitiesEdTechHigher EducationTrainingEducationRoboticsNon ProfitUniversitiesArt

Summary

In 1980 was created U.S. Department of Education, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Washington. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 65 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2017.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the U.S. Department of Education, startups are often financed by National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, GoArmy. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NASA. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Google.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Training, Robotics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Center for Supportive Schools, Teach for America, IDEA Public Schools Enterprises. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Jimmy Carter.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
73
Lead investments
37
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.66
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Education (50)
  • Higher Education (18)
  • Non Profit (16)
  • Universities (12)
  • EdTech (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (73)
Peak activity year
2017

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
74
Group Appearance index
0.01
Avg. company exit year
21

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