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W.L. Gore & Associates

Founders Vieve Gore Wilbert Gore

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.08
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Diabetes
  • Drug Discovery
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arzeda

Biotechnology
Information Services
Information Technology
$38M17 Sep 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Quellan

Automotive
Consumer Electronics
Data Center
$20M27 Sep 2007 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 0.08
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arzeda

Biotechnology
Information Services
Information Technology
$38M17 Sep 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Quellan

Automotive
Consumer Electronics
Data Center
$20M27 Sep 2007 San Jose, California, United States
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