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AC & Friends GmbH

Founders Christopher Grabher

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$835K
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 1.22
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Information Services
  • Enterprise Software
  • GovTech
  • B2B
  • Information Technology
Summary

AC & Friends GmbH is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Austria. The main department of described VC is located in the Vienna.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Travel, Enterprise Software. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Austria. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mountain Hub, Hitbox Entertainment, kompany. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

When the investment is from AC & Friends GmbH the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this AC & Friends GmbH performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the AC & Friends GmbH, startups are often financed by Valentin Basilides, Michael Schweitzer, Livag GmbH. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valentin Basilides, Russell Perry, Michael Schweitzer. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by aws Gru00fcnderfonds (aws Founders Fund), Speedinvest, Hoxton Ventures.

The current fund was established by Christopher Grabher.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

openlaws

Compliance
Information Services
Legal
Legal Tech
Productivity Tools
Small and Medium Businesses
26 Dec 2016 Austria

Lykon

Health Care
Internet
01 Jan 2016 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Apps
Coupons
E-Commerce
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
13 Oct 2015 Vienna, Austria

Mountain Hub

Information Services
Mobile Apps
Outdoors
Travel
Web Apps
$2M01 Mar 2015 Utah, United States

ChatGrape

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Software
VoIP
$1M20 Jan 2015 Vienna, Austria

kompany

B2B
FinTech
GovTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$585K01 Jan 2015 Austria, Vienna

nextSociety, Inc.

Enterprise Software
Social Media
$1M10 Dec 2014 New York, New York, United States

TourRadar

Marketplace
Search Engine
Tourism
Travel
$500K28 May 2014 Vienna

kompany

B2B
FinTech
GovTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$2M28 Mar 2014 Vienna

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Total investments 11
Average round size 835K
Rounds per year 1.22
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

openlaws

Compliance
Information Services
Legal
Legal Tech
Productivity Tools
Small and Medium Businesses
26 Dec 2016 Austria

Lykon

Health Care
Internet
01 Jan 2016 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Apps
Coupons
E-Commerce
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
13 Oct 2015 Vienna, Austria

Mountain Hub

Information Services
Mobile Apps
Outdoors
Travel
Web Apps
$2M01 Mar 2015 Utah, United States

ChatGrape

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Software
VoIP
$1M20 Jan 2015 Vienna, Austria

kompany

B2B
FinTech
GovTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$585K01 Jan 2015 Austria, Vienna

nextSociety, Inc.

Enterprise Software
Social Media
$1M10 Dec 2014 New York, New York, United States

TourRadar

Marketplace
Search Engine
Tourism
Travel
$500K28 May 2014 Vienna

kompany

B2B
FinTech
GovTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$2M28 Mar 2014 Vienna
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