Acorn Capital

Total investments

18

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.69

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

1

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyHuman ResourcesFinanceSaaSEmploymentEmployee Benefits

Summary

Acorn Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The company was established in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Melbourne.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Acorn Capital, startups are often financed by Reinventure Group, BridgeLane Capital, Tank Stream Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tank Stream Ventures, Reinventure Group, Point72 Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tank Stream Ventures, Reinventure Group, Point72 Ventures.

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

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 4 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 Elenium Automation, Flare HR, Flare HR. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Hardware, Internet. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 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 - Australia.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Acorn Capital performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
5
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.69
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (5)
  • Software (5)
  • Financial Services (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Finance (4)
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Investments by region
  • Australia (17)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.67

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