Yahoo
26
78M
20
0.93
5
0.23
14
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 26
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 14
- Rounds per year
- 0.93
- Follow on index
- 0.23
- Investments by industry
- Enterprise Software (8)
- Software (5)
- Analytics (4)
- Big Data (4)
- Collaboration (4) Show 46 more
- Investments by region
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- China (1)
- United States (19)
- India (4)
- Spain (1)
- Japan (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 5
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 26
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 5B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.73
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 10.64
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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