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U.S. Department of Education

Investor type Government Office
Founders Jimmy Carter

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Total investments 63
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 59
Rounds per year 1.47
Lead investments 30
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Higher Education
  • Non Profit
  • Universities
  • EdTech
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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CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oklahoma City Community College - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni

$321K27 Jan 2023 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Pensacola State College - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni

Corporate Training
Education
Higher Education
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$832K20 Jan 2023 Pensacola, Florida, United States

Prichard Committee

Non Profit
$47M18 Jan 2023 Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Oklahoma City Community College - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni

$1M07 Oct 2022 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni

Communities
Education
Universities
$343K05 Oct 2022 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

New Jersey Institute of Technology - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni

Education
Universities
$1M29 Aug 2022 Newark, New Jersey, United States

Vincennes University - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni

$2M07 Jul 2022 Indiana, United States

Pullias Center for Higher Education

25 Jan 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

University of Kentucky College of Education

Education
$1M19 Jan 2022 Lexington, Kentucky, United States

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