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AFSquare

Founders Troy Carter

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 36
Lead investments 1
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 18
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Social Media
  • Software
  • Music
  • Mobile
  • Mobile Apps
Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Culver City. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9-10 partakers. Despite the AFSquare, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Atom Factory, Troy Carter. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GV, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz.

Comparing to the other companies, this AFSquare performs on 14 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from AFSquare is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2012.

The current fund was established by Troy Carter. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Social Media, Advertising. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Spotify, Lyft. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Complex Polygon

Apps
Mobile Apps
Software
$1M10 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

TheSkimm

Fashion
Information Services
Mobile Apps
News
Politics
Publishing
$1M14 Apr 2014 New York, New York, United States

Gusto

Employee Benefits
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
Personal Finance
SaaS
$20M19 Feb 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

StyleSeat

Beauty
Personal Health
Social Media
$10M22 Jan 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Mindie

File Sharing
Music
Video
$1M16 Jan 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Misfit Wearables

Fitness
Hardware
Health Care
Sensor
Wearables
$15M04 Dec 2013 California, United States

Kidaptive

Big Data
EdTech
Education
Personalization
$10M14 Nov 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

Buddy Technologies

Cloud Data Services
Energy Efficiency
Internet of Things
Smart Building
Smart Home
$2M18 Oct 2013 South Australia

Tuition.io

Education
Finance
Financial Services
Personal Finance
$1M26 Feb 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

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Total investments 38
Average round size 7M
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Complex Polygon

Apps
Mobile Apps
Software
$1M10 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

TheSkimm

Fashion
Information Services
Mobile Apps
News
Politics
Publishing
$1M14 Apr 2014 New York, New York, United States

Gusto

Employee Benefits
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
Personal Finance
SaaS
$20M19 Feb 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

StyleSeat

Beauty
Personal Health
Social Media
$10M22 Jan 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Mindie

File Sharing
Music
Video
$1M16 Jan 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Misfit Wearables

Fitness
Hardware
Health Care
Sensor
Wearables
$15M04 Dec 2013 California, United States

Kidaptive

Big Data
EdTech
Education
Personalization
$10M14 Nov 2013 Mountain View, California, United States

Buddy Technologies

Cloud Data Services
Energy Efficiency
Internet of Things
Smart Building
Smart Home
$2M18 Oct 2013 South Australia

Tuition.io

Education
Finance
Financial Services
Personal Finance
$1M26 Feb 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States
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