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A-Grade Investments

Founders Guy Oseary Ron Burkle

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Total investments 37
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 3.08
Lead investments 1
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 18
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Apps
  • Mobile
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Willing

Elder Care
Funerals
Legal
$7M03 Nov 2016 Miami, Florida, United States

IfOnly

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
Retail Technology
$10M08 Feb 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Angel.ai

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Internet
Machine Learning
Reservations
$8M30 Jul 2015 New York, New York, United States

Wit.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Developer APIs
Machine Learning
Software
$3M15 Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Product Hunt

Communities
Mobile
Product Management
$880K21 Aug 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Casper

E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Product Design
Retail
$13M07 Aug 2014 New York, New York, United States

Resy, American Express Global Dining Network

Apps
Hospitality
Reservations
Restaurants
$2M31 Jul 2014 New York, New York, United States

BitGo

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Virtual Currency
$12M16 Jun 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Timeful

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Database
Machine Learning
Task Management
$7M16 May 2014 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 37
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 3.08
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Willing

Elder Care
Funerals
Legal
$7M03 Nov 2016 Miami, Florida, United States

IfOnly

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
Retail Technology
$10M08 Feb 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Angel.ai

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Internet
Machine Learning
Reservations
$8M30 Jul 2015 New York, New York, United States

Wit.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Developer APIs
Machine Learning
Software
$3M15 Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Product Hunt

Communities
Mobile
Product Management
$880K21 Aug 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Casper

E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Product Design
Retail
$13M07 Aug 2014 New York, New York, United States

Resy, American Express Global Dining Network

Apps
Hospitality
Reservations
Restaurants
$2M31 Jul 2014 New York, New York, United States

BitGo

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Virtual Currency
$12M16 Jun 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Timeful

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Database
Machine Learning
Task Management
$7M16 May 2014 Mountain View, California, United States
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