Investment Summary

Lead Edge Capital and ICONIQ Capital Invest In Guild Education

On November 13, 2019, growth capital firms Lead Edge Capital and ICONIQ Capital invested in education company Guild Education

Investment Highlights
  • This is Lead Edge Capital’s 1st and ICONIQ Capital’s 2nd transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is Lead Edge Capital’s 14th and ICONIQ Capital’s 39th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Lead Edge Capital’s 1st and ICONIQ Capital’s 1st transaction in Colorado.

Investment Summary
Date 2019-11-13
Target Guild Education
Sector Education
Investor(s) Lead Edge Capital
ICONIQ Capital
Deal Type Venture

Target

Guild Education

Denver, Colorado, United States
Guild Education partners with Fortune 1000 companies and non-profit universities to offer education benefits to their employees, with a focus on frontline workers. Guild Education was formed in 2015 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Lead Edge Capital

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 2009
PE ASSETS 5.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Lead Edge Capital is a growth capital firm focused on software, internet, consumer, and tech-enabled services companies. The Firm has no geographic preferences and will consider both private and public company investments. Leading Edge's investment size is $10 to $200 million. Lead Edge Capital was established in 2009 and is headquartered in New York City.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 19 of 46
Sector (Education) 1 of 1
Type (Venture) 10 of 26
State (Colorado) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 14 of 37
Year (2019) 6 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-11-08 Bumble

Austin, Texas, United States

Bumble is a women-first dating application and social community that creates empowering connections in love (Bumble Date), life (Bumble BFF), and work (Bumble Bizz). Bumble is part of the MagicLab family of companies, which also owns Badoo, an international dating app. Bumble was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas.

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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-01-01 LiveView Technologies

Orem, Utah, United States

LiveView Technologies is an Enterprise Cloud Software vendor providing a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Cloud solution for remote video and analytic data gathering, processing, and delivery. LVT is in the business of securely delivering actionable intelligence from the Edge to the Cloud enabling secure yet convenient access and push notifications to authorized end-users who in turn can take action on that intelligence. LiveView Technologies is based in Orem, Utah.

Buy -
Investor

ICONIQ Capital

Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 2011
PE ASSETS 80.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

DEAL STATS #
Overall 42 of 91
Sector (Education) 2 of 2
Type (Venture) 26 of 72
State (Colorado) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 39 of 80
Year (2019) 11 of 15
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-06-27 Restaurant365

Irvine, California, United States

Restaurant365 is a restaurant management platform that provides accounting, inventory, scheduling, payroll, and HR solution developed specifically for restaurants. The R365 platform simplifies day-to-day management for restaurant operators, allowing them to control food costs and optimize labor costs. Integrations and open APIs enable Restaurant365 to connect with other systems including POS providers, vendors, and banks. Restaurant365 was founded in 2011 and is based in Irvine, California.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-11-14 Moveworks

Mountain View, California, United States

Moveworks is an AI platform designed to solve employees' support issues, from IT tickets to HR requests to policy questions. Moveworks is based in Mountain View, California.

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