Zendesk

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

12

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

0.71

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

1

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationConsultingCustomer ServiceManagement Information SystemsQuality Assurance

Summary

Zendesk appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2007. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 participants. Despite the Zendesk, startups are often financed by RRE Ventures, Gotham Ventures, Bullish. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Twilio, Toba Capital, The Nasiri Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Twilio.org Impact Fund, PagerDuty, Okta Ventures.

The fund was created by Alexander Aghassipour, Mikkel Asger Svane, Morten Primdahl.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

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 country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stella Connect, Fast Forward. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are B2B, Quality Assurance. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.71
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Customer Service (5)
  • SaaS (4)
  • Enterprise Software (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Ukraine (1)
Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
50M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
2.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
PolyAI 16 May 2024 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Customer Service, Call Center Late Stage Venture 50M England, London, United Kingdom
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