A-Grade Investments

Total investments

37

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

3.08

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

18

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceAppsMobile AppsMarketplaceComputerHospitality

Summary

A-Grade Investments is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2010. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Los Angeles. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with more than 10 partakers. Despite the A-Grade Investments, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, SV Angel, Founders Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tuesday Capital, Slow Ventures, Founders Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Slow Ventures, Founders Fund, First Round Capital.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This A-Grade Investments works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from A-Grade Investments the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Airbnb, Flexport, Casper Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

This organization was formed by Guy Oseary, Ron Burkle.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
37
Lead investments
1
Exits
18
Rounds per year
3.08
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Apps (7)
  • Mobile (6)
  • Internet (5)
  • E-Commerce (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (31)
  • Germany (2)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4B
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
4.05
Strategy success index
0.60

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