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August Capital

Founders David Marquardt John Johnston

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Total investments 296
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 151
Rounds per year 7.40
Lead investments 60
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 75
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Analytics
  • Enterprise Software
  • E-Commerce
Summary

In 1984 was created August Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This August Capital works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from August Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the August Capital, startups are often financed by Maveron, 500 Startups, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Focus Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Shasta Ventures.

This organization was formed by David Marquardt, John Johnston. The overall number of key employees were 14.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Advertising, Enterprise Software. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight zulily, Avant, Splunk. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MaintainX

Asset Management
Information Technology
Software
$50M06 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Caresync.co

$29M08 Jun 2023 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Dock Health

Health Care
Medical
Software
Task Management
$5M25 May 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

UBOXCARGO

Transportation
$2M03 Jan 2023 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

Nexus

Health Care
SaaS
Software
$3M20 Dec 2022 California City, California, United States

PatientIQ

Health Care
Information Technology
Software
Wellness
$20M12 May 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Fletch

Analytics
B2B
Big Data
Cyber Security
SaaS
Software
$15M01 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Kentik

Analytics
Automation/Workflow Software
Business/Productivity Software
Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Network Management Software
Network Security
$40M07 Oct 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Brilliant

Consumer Electronics
Digital Media
Home Improvement
Smart Home
$40M30 Aug 2021 California, United States
News
Brilliant Announces $40M Series B Financing

– Brilliant, the leading innovator in smart home control, lighting, and home automation systems, today announced a $40m Series B financing round.
– The round was led by Next47 and Celesta Capital with participation by Resideo Technologies, August Capital, Peak State Ventures, Gaingels, and Miramar Ventures.
– Founded in 2015, Brilliant’s mission is to accelerate mainstream adoption of smart home living with affordable and user-friendly home control and automation systems.

HIHello Raises $7.5M in Series A Funding

– HiHello, a Palo Alto CA-based digital business card platform, raised $7.5M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Foundry Group, with participation from Lux Capital, August Capital, Manu Kumar (Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of HiHello), and the co-founders of Lyft, Everlaw, Auth0, Path/June, and Military.com.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow its team and expand its business platform to support companies of all sizes.

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Total investments 296
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 7.40
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 60
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 75
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MaintainX

Asset Management
Information Technology
Software
$50M06 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Caresync.co

$29M08 Jun 2023 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Dock Health

Health Care
Medical
Software
Task Management
$5M25 May 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

UBOXCARGO

Transportation
$2M03 Jan 2023 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

Nexus

Health Care
SaaS
Software
$3M20 Dec 2022 California City, California, United States

PatientIQ

Health Care
Information Technology
Software
Wellness
$20M12 May 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Fletch

Analytics
B2B
Big Data
Cyber Security
SaaS
Software
$15M01 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Kentik

Analytics
Automation/Workflow Software
Business/Productivity Software
Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Network Management Software
Network Security
$40M07 Oct 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Brilliant

Consumer Electronics
Digital Media
Home Improvement
Smart Home
$40M30 Aug 2021 California, United States
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