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What does Starbucks invest in?
Starbucks invests most often at Series D and Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Enterprise, Financial Services and Coffee.
Starbucks highlights
- 01
3 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Series D and Seed: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 1 rounds, median undisclosed
What they do
- Type
- Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Sectors
- EnterpriseFinancial ServicesCoffee
- Based in
- Seattle, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first3 appearances
- 2013
1 round
- Nov
- 2012
1 round
- Sept
- 1999
1 round
- Dec
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 13 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
1 of 7 we have independently watched raise
AthomeAboutAlumni CommunityContent-prod-liveCustomer ServiceOffice and Foodservice CoffeeStarbucks Archive
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Companies it bought
Acquisitions by the firm itself
Teavana$620MDec 2012
La BoulangeUndisclosedJun 2012