Walmart

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Bentonville, United States

Total investments

37

Average round size

429M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.60

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

8

Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceInternetSupply Chain ManagementRetailInformation TechnologyB2BSalesMarketingAgTech

Summary

Walmart appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1962. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Bentonville. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Walmart the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Walmart works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 63 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Walmart, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, DST Global, Capital Today. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tiger Global Management, Oracle, Lennar Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, JD.com.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Collaboration, Internet. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline JD.com, New Dada, Level Home For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Sam Walton. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
37
Lead investments
8
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.60
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Internet (15)
  • E-Commerce (11)
  • Retail (7)
  • Supply Chain Management (5)
  • Marketing (5)
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Investments by region
  • India (13)
  • China (7)
  • Japan (1)
  • United States (15)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
967M
Group Appearance index
0.51
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.62
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Level Home 10 Nov 2021 Information Technology, Consumer Electronics, Smart Home, Home Improvement Late Stage Venture 100M United States, California, Redwood City
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