Accion

Total investments

26

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

0.41

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFinTechRetailMobilePaymentsFinanceSmall and Medium BusinessesMobile PaymentsCreditBusiness Development

Summary

In 1961 was created Accion, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Cambridge.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Accion, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Accion Venture Lab, SparkLabs Global Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are White Star Capital, Task Force X Capital, Stony Lonesome Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by White Star Capital, Stony Lonesome Group, Heartcore Capital.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lend Street Financial, Inc., CreditMantri, ftcash Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Micro Lending, Finance. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. When the investment is from Accion the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The fund was created by Joseph Blatchford. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
7
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.41
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (18)
  • Financial Services (15)
  • Small and Medium Businesses (6)
  • Credit (5)
  • Finance (4)
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Investments by region
  • India (12)
  • Indonesia (1)
  • United States (5)
  • South Africa (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
103M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
11
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
First Circle 12 Apr 2017 FinTech, Small and Medium Businesses, Business Development Seed 1M Rizal, Taguig, Philippines
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StreetShares Platform 01 Feb 2016 Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses, Lending Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Virginia

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