W.L. Gore & Associates
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10M
3
0.06
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0.25
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- Areas of investment
Summary
W.L. Gore & Associates is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1958. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Newark. The venture was found in North America in United States.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Automotive, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quellan. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.
The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this W.L. Gore & Associates performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The current fund was established by Vieve Gore, Wilbert Gore.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the W.L. Gore & Associates, startups are often financed by ATDC, Sanderling Ventures, Menlo Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VentureTech Alliance, Samsung Ventures, Menlo Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TPG, Sanderling Ventures, RA Capital Management.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 4
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 0.06
- Follow on index
- 0.25
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (3)
- Biotechnology (3)
- Medical (2)
- Diabetes (2)
- Drug Discovery (2) Show 4 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (4)
- Peak activity year
- 2007
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 14
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 5M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.50
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.44
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quellan | 27 Sep 2007 | Automotive, Data Center, Consumer Electronics | Late Stage Venture | 20M | United States, California, San Jose |
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