Bill Ford
Angel Investor @ General Atlantic
Bill Ford is a Series A investor at General Atlantic focused on Transportation and SaaS. Bill Ford
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Bill Ford invests in
Stages Bill Ford invests in
Countries Bill Ford invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Transportation 2 (100%)
- SaaS 1 (50%)
- Aerospace 1 (50%)
- Analytics 1 (50%)
- Logistics 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series A 1 (50%)
- Series B 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Sierra Space products and programs are working towards a more accessible space economy. The company is rapidly advancing toward the launch of the world’s only winged commercial spaceplane, the Dream Chaser. As the next generation of space transportation, the Dream Chaser will perform cargo supply and return missions for NASA, set to begin in late2022, delivering up to 12,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) at a time. The return journey will carry critical data, generated by ISS researcher experiments, enabling earth-bound scientists to benefit from much faster access to these unique results. Dream Chaser is a reusable spaceplane, uniquely capable of a smooth 1.5 low-g re-entry for crew and cargo transportation with the ability to land on existing commercial runways worldwide. | $1.4B / Series A / Nov 19, 2021 | ||
| FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $21M / Series B / Feb 25, 2019 |
Co-Investors
About General Atlantic
General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market businesses.
General Atlantic Contacts
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Alex Crisses
Managing Director, Global Head of New Investment Sourcing & Co-Head of Emerging Growth
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Andrea W. Joseph
Managing Director
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Andrew Crawford
Managing Director and Global Head of Consumer
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Asher Hecht
Vice President
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Ashish Saboo
Managing Director, Chief Representative of Indonesia
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What does Bill Ford invest in?
Bill Ford invests primarily in Transportation, SaaS and Aerospace startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Bill Ford closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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