Uber

Summary

In 2009 was created Uber, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Uber, startups are often financed by NGP Capital, DCM Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Baidu, Warby Parker, Vanke. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Square Capital, Leap Ventures, 50 Partners.

The fund was created by Garrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, Travis Kalanick.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Uber China, Lime, Girls Who Code We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as EdTech, Leasing. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Uber works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Uber is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.