Visa
Corporate investor
Active
Foster City, United States
120
53M
104
1.82
28
0.13
18
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1958 was created Visa, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Payments, SaaS. 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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stripe, DocuSign, Ariba.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Visa, startups are often financed by Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CommerzVentures GmbH. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Capital, Goldman Sachs.
The top activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Visa is more than 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Visa performs on 8 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.
The current fund was established by Dee Hock. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 120
- Lead investments
- 28
- Exits
- 18
- Rounds per year
- 1.82
- Follow on index
- 0.13
- Investments by industry
- FinTech (66)
- Financial Services (51)
- Payments (45)
- Finance (22)
- Mobile Payments (21) Show 116 more
- Investments by region
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- Sweden (7)
- United States (46)
- Indonesia (3)
- Singapore (6)
- South Africa (2) Show 22 more
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 14
- Number of Decacorns
- 17
- Number of Minotaurs
- 5
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.65
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
- Avg. multiplicator
- 8.10
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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