AC Ventures

Total investments

26

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

2

Rounds per year

6.50

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.34

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Information TechnologyAerospaceManufacturingHardwareConsumer ElectronicsTelecommunicationsConsulting

Summary

AC Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1992. The main department of described VC is located in the Sonoma. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the AC Ventures, startups are often financed by Tredegar Investments, Redleaf Group, Walden International. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, SeaPoint Ventures, Bowman Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by St. Paul Venture Capital, SeaPoint Ventures, Japan Asia Investment.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2003. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from AC Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this AC Ventures performs on 13 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less 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. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Moai technologies, Everypath, FuelQuest. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Consulting.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
4
Rounds per year
6.50
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (1)
  • Consulting (1)
  • Aerospace (1)
  • Manufacturing (1)
  • Consumer Electronics (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (1)
  • Nigeria (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.07
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Vesper 09 Dec 2016 Manufacturing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Telecommunications Early Stage Venture 15M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
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