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Yahoo

Founders David Filo Jerry Yang Roland Schemers

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$78M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 0.93
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 14
Key employees 6

Areas of investment

  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Big Data
  • Collaboration
Summary

Yahoo is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1994. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Sunnyvale.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are B2B, Mobile. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alibaba, Snap, Google. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The current fund was established by David Filo, Jerry Yang.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Yahoo, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, Venture TDF. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Canaan Partners, Benchmark, Tenaya Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tenaya Capital, Index Ventures, Global Brain Corporation.

Opposing the other organizations, this Yahoo works on 25 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The average startup value when the investment from Yahoo is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Unify Square

Collaboration
Communications Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
Software
Unified Communications
$12M23 Jul 2015 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Hortonworks

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Software
$50M01 Jun 2013 San Jose, California, United States

B2B
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Printing
$2M02 Jan 2013 Chiyoda, Japan

Hortonworks

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Software
$25M01 Nov 2011 United States, San Jose

Hortonworks

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Software
$23M01 Jun 2011 San Jose, California, United States

Information Services
Information Technology
Social Media
$240K07 Jan 2010 California, United States

Vlingo

Audio
Developer APIs
Mobile
Telecommunications
$20M02 Apr 2008 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Matrimony.com

Classifieds
Customer Service
$11M06 Feb 2008 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Bharat Matrimony

Communities
Social Network
Wedding
$11M05 Feb 2008 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Total investments 26
Average round size 78M
Rounds per year 0.93
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Unify Square

Collaboration
Communications Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
Software
Unified Communications
$12M23 Jul 2015 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Hortonworks

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Software
$50M01 Jun 2013 San Jose, California, United States

B2B
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Printing
$2M02 Jan 2013 Chiyoda, Japan

Hortonworks

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Software
$25M01 Nov 2011 United States, San Jose

Hortonworks

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Software
$23M01 Jun 2011 San Jose, California, United States

Information Services
Information Technology
Social Media
$240K07 Jan 2010 California, United States

Vlingo

Audio
Developer APIs
Mobile
Telecommunications
$20M02 Apr 2008 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Matrimony.com

Classifieds
Customer Service
$11M06 Feb 2008 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Bharat Matrimony

Communities
Social Network
Wedding
$11M05 Feb 2008 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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