Accion Venture Lab

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Washington, United States

Total investments

108

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

71

Rounds per year

8.31

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceSmall and Medium BusinessesMobile PaymentsBankingMarketplaceCredit

Summary

In 2011 was created Accion Venture Lab, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Washington. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Accion Venture Lab, startups are often financed by Wayra, Techstars, SparkLabs Global Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Omidyar Network, Newid capital, Mountain Nazca. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Quona Capital, Omidyar Network, SAIF Partners.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Varthana, Lend Street Financial, Inc. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, Finance.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2015.

The current fund was established by Paul Breloff. The overall number of key employees were 12.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistFintechAgricultureLogisticsEcommerce Show 2 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
Up to 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
108
Lead investments
19
Exits
1
Rounds per year
8.31
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (73)
  • FinTech (59)
  • Finance (27)
  • Small and Medium Businesses (12)
  • Credit (11)
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Investments by region
  • India (27)
  • Egypt (4)
  • United States (20)
  • Nigeria (6)
  • Colombia (4)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
68M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Credright 23 Sep 2021 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Lending Early Stage Venture 2M Andhra Pradesh, India, India
Jeitto 07 Feb 2019 Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Payments, Credit Seed 1M São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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