Acequia Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Seattle, United States

Total investments

499

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

309

Rounds per year

35.64

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

28

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Acequia Capital (Acecap) is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Seattle. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pinterest, Flexport, ContextLogic (dba. Wish). Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Acequia Capital (Acecap), startups are often financed by Morado Ventures, Charlie Songhurst, Vivi Nevo. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hank Vigil, First Round Capital, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FirstMark, Hank Vigil, Y Combinator.

The current fund was established by Fritz Lanman, Hank Vigil. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. When the investment is from Acequia Capital (Acecap) the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Acequia Capital (Acecap) works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataCloud/InfrastructureLogisticsBiotech/Life Sciences Show 3 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 3990000
Fund raised date
2019-07-06

Analytics

Total investments
499
Lead investments
6
Exits
28
Rounds per year
35.64
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Software (164)
  • Artificial Intelligence (71)
  • Information Technology (71)
  • SaaS (54)
  • Machine Learning (52)
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Investments by region
  • United States (267)
  • United Kingdom (86)
  • Germany (11)
  • France (24)
  • Canada (10)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
12
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
366M
Group Appearance index
0.41
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
5.32
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BizzTM 19 Dec 2022 Social, E-Commerce, Information Technology, Information Services Seed 3M Haryana, Gurugram, India
Magma 12 Dec 2023 Software, Collaboration Seed 5M United States, Texas, Austin

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