AC & Friends GmbH

Total investments

11

Average round size

835K

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

1.22

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyB2BInformation ServicesMessagingEnterprise SoftwareTravelGovTechVoIP

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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Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.22
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Information Services (4)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • GovTech (2)
  • B2B (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
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Investments by region
  • Austria (8)
  • United States (2)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
450K
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
3

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
nextSociety, Inc. 10 Dec 2014 Enterprise Software, Social Media Seed 1M United States, New York, New York
ChatGrape 20 Jan 2015 Software, Messaging, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, VoIP Seed 1M Vienna, Austria
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