Advanced Equities

Total investments

46

Average round size

47M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

2.09

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterpriseMobileSemiconductorAdvertisingWirelessRFID

Summary

Advanced Equities is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1999. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Chicago.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Advanced Equities, startups are often financed by ComVentures, Worldview Technology Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sunbridge Partners, Apex Venture Partners, Warburg Pincus. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Sunbridge Partners, Apex Venture Partners.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2006. Comparing to the other companies, this Advanced Equities performs on 7 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Advanced Equities the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

This organization was formed by Dwight Badger, Keith Daubenspeck. The overall number of key employees were 1.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bloom Energy, Alien Technology, Motricity. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Semiconductor, Software. The fund has specific favorite 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.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
46
Lead investments
3
Exits
15
Rounds per year
2.09
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Semiconductor (12)
  • Information Technology (12)
  • Transportation (11)
  • Mobile (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2008
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
112M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.08
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ambric 01 Nov 2007 Software, Video, Semiconductor Early Stage Venture 0 United States, Ohio
04 Jan 2014 Health Care, Wellness, Social Network, Personal Health, Home Health Care, Telecommunications Seed 0 United States, " United States"}
StorCard 03 Nov 2004 Software, Hardware, Data Storage Late Stage Venture 4M United States, California, San Jose

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