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IBM Ventures

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$33M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.04
Exits 3
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Information Services
  • Enterprise Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

IBM Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. IBM Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Welltok, IFTTT, WayBlazer For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Health Care.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

When the investment is from IBM Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This IBM Ventures works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the IBM Ventures, startups are often financed by ICONIQ Capital, TriZetto, Salesforce Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IBM, Salesforce Ventures, Yahoo. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Norwest Venture Partners, Microsoft, USAA.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Unstructured Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Open Source
$40M14 Mar 2024 Sacramento, California, United States

Synthetaic

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$15M06 Feb 2024 Wisconsin, United States

Gem

Network Security
$23M27 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

HiddenLayer

Cyber Security
$50M19 Sep 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

AuthMind

Cyber Security
Identity Management
Software Engineering
$8M11 Jul 2023 Bethesda, Maryland, United States

PreciseDx

Health Care
$10M11 Jan 2022 New York, New York, United States

Copado

Collaboration
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
IT Management
Software
$140M13 Sep 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Variantyx

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Information Technology
Life Science
Personal Health
$20M15 Mar 2021 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

IFTTT

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
$24M26 Apr 2018 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Copado Raises $140 Million Series C Round to Expand Its DevOps Platform Across Leading Enterprise SaaS Clouds, Approaches $1.2 Billion Valuation

– Copado has raised $140m in Series C financing.
– The round was led by Insight Partners and includes participation from new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Declaration Partners and DG Ventures, as well as existing investors Salesforce Ventures, ISAI Cap Venture, Lead Edge Capital, and Perpetual Investors. Strategic investor IBM Ventures also participated in the round.
– Proceeds will be used to expand its DevOps and AI-enabled testing solutions across the leading enterprise SaaS platforms driving today’s digital transformation projects.

Variantyx Secures $20M in Series C Funding

– Variantyx, a Boston, MA-based hereditary disease testing company, secured $20M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by GHS Fund (Quark Venture LP and GF Securities) and includes new investor, IBM Ventures and current investors, Pitango Venture Capital, New Era Capital Partners, 20/20 HealthCare Partners.
– In conjunction with the funding, Zafrira Avnur, PhD, Quark Venture Chief Scientific Officer & Partner, will join the Variantyx board of directors.
– The company intends to use the funds for development of its tumor diagnostic solutions and the expansion of sales.

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Total investments 23
Average round size 33M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.04
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Unstructured Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Open Source
$40M14 Mar 2024 Sacramento, California, United States

Synthetaic

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$15M06 Feb 2024 Wisconsin, United States

Gem

Network Security
$23M27 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

HiddenLayer

Cyber Security
$50M19 Sep 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

AuthMind

Cyber Security
Identity Management
Software Engineering
$8M11 Jul 2023 Bethesda, Maryland, United States

PreciseDx

Health Care
$10M11 Jan 2022 New York, New York, United States

Copado

Collaboration
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
IT Management
Software
$140M13 Sep 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Variantyx

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Information Technology
Life Science
Personal Health
$20M15 Mar 2021 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

IFTTT

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
$24M26 Apr 2018 San Francisco, California, United States
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