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Alpha Edison

Founders Michael Parekh Nate Redmond Nick Grouf

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Total investments 102
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 61
Rounds per year 12.75
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 2
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • FinTech
  • SaaS
Summary

Alpha Edison appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Diagnostics, Video. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight IDx, HouseCanary, Aspiration. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 39 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The fund was created by Michael Parekh, Nate Redmond, Nick Grouf. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Alpha Edison, startups are often financed by The Chernin Group, Trail Mix Ventures, Corazon Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mucker Capital, Greycroft, Damian Maldonado. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Social Starts, Upfront Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Upwards

Child Care
EdTech
Education
Employee Benefits
Primary Education
$21M15 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Quoherent

Computer
Hardware
$4M05 Oct 2023 Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Delta Trainer

Fitness
Software
Training
Wearables
Wellness
$6M04 Oct 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Assembly

Internet
Software
$10M12 Dec 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States

Carro

Lifestyle
Marketing
$25M01 Oct 2022 Irvine, California, United States

Aikon

Blockchain
Computer
FinTech
Software
$10M29 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Revea

Beauty
Health Diagnostics
Personal Health
$6M21 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Bambee

Human Resources
Professional Services
SaaS
Software
$30M16 Mar 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Kintsugi

Apps
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Personal Health
Software
$20M28 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States
News
Clovers Scores $15M Seed Financing Round

– Clovers, a human resources technology firm leveraging conversational intelligence to improve interviewing and hiring practices, today announced it has raised $15m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Greycroft and Alpha Edison with participation from Crosslink Capital, Acadian Ventures, Fika Ventures and Act One Ventures.
– Clovers is the intelligent interview platform that uses human and conversational intelligence to accelerate hiring, uncover bias, and put the right people in the right role every time.

Disqo Raises $85M in Series B Funding

– Disqo is a consumer insights platform based in Los Angeles, CA.
– Company closed an $85m Series B growth funding.
– The round was led by Sageview Capital with participation from March Capital, Valuestream Ventures, and existing investors Alpha Edison and Bonfire Ventures.
– The new investment will be aimed at scaling the company’s operations and accelerating its product roadmap.

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Total investments 102
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 12.75
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Upwards

Child Care
EdTech
Education
Employee Benefits
Primary Education
$21M15 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Quoherent

Computer
Hardware
$4M05 Oct 2023 Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Delta Trainer

Fitness
Software
Training
Wearables
Wellness
$6M04 Oct 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Assembly

Internet
Software
$10M12 Dec 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States

Carro

Lifestyle
Marketing
$25M01 Oct 2022 Irvine, California, United States

Aikon

Blockchain
Computer
FinTech
Software
$10M29 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Revea

Beauty
Health Diagnostics
Personal Health
$6M21 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Bambee

Human Resources
Professional Services
SaaS
Software
$30M16 Mar 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Kintsugi

Apps
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Personal Health
Software
$20M28 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States
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