ACE & Company

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Geneve, Switzerland

Total investments

249

Average round size

40M

Portfolio companies

190

Rounds per year

13.11

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

32

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetTransportationSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSMarketplace

Summary

ACE & Company is the famous VC, which was founded in 2005. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Switzerland. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Geneva.

The average startup value when the investment from ACE & Company is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this ACE & Company performs on 13 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

This organization was formed by Adam Said, Christopher Kile, Sherif El Halwagy. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the ACE & Company, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Kima Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Wei Guo. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DHVC, Sequoia Capital, Passion Capital.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Food and Beverage, Financial Services. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Didi Chuxing, TransferWise.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
249
Lead investments
7
Exits
32
Rounds per year
13.11
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (71)
  • Financial Services (34)
  • FinTech (33)
  • E-Commerce (28)
  • Information Technology (26)
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Investments by region
  • United States (116)
  • Ireland (2)
  • Switzerland (42)
  • United Arab Emirates (2)
  • United Kingdom (30)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
12
Number of Decacorns
17
Number of Minotaurs
12

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.99
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Onfolk 01 Sep 2021 Human Resources, SaaS, Productivity Tools Seed England, Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom
Roofr 18 Oct 2023 Marketplace, Construction, Home Improvement, Home Renovation Early Stage Venture 23M United States, California, San Francisco
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