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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 0.18
Lead investments 10
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Big Data
  • Financial Services
  • Non Profit
  • Software
Summary

In 1930 was created The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, startups are often financed by Emerson Collective, Raymond McGuire, Michael Kassan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Libra Foundation, Ford Foundation, Emerson Collective. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goldman Sachs, Woodcock Foundation, The Libra Foundation.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Education. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Macro, Macro, Sixup. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Founders First Capital Partners

Finance
Financial Services
Venture Capital
$11M09 Nov 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Merantix

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Software
$29M27 Jan 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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STEM NOLA Receives $1.25M to Seed 42,000 SF STEM NOLA Innovation HUB and Expand Award-Winning STEM Programming

– STEM NOLA has been awarded a $1.25 million dollar grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Kellogg Foundation).
– A portion of the grant will go towards transforming a local New Orleans East building into the first STEM NOLA Innovation center.
– The balance will support STEM NOLA’s award-winning programming that addresses early childhood STEM exposure and skill gaps among Black and Latinx youth with engagement tools to improve mathematics and science proficiency,­­­­ build confidence and performance in STEM-related subjects, and offer STEM-based professional development to childhood educators with STEM-based curriculum and materials.
– The grant will be distributed over a three-year period.
– The future STEM NOLA Innovation HUB will be located in the New Orleans East Opportunity Zone.

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Total investments 17
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.18
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.12
Group Appearance index 0.29

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Founders First Capital Partners

Finance
Financial Services
Venture Capital
$11M09 Nov 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Merantix

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Software
$29M27 Jan 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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