Advantage Capital

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

New Orleans, United States

Total investments

1103

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

593

Rounds per year

34.47

Lead investments

64

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

109

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageFood ProcessingHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalIndustrial Manufacturing

Summary

Advantage Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1992. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New Orleans.

The fund was created by David Bergmann, Martin Bodenham, Steven T. Stull. Besides them, we counted 18 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Advantage Capital, startups are often financed by Prolog Ventures, Rand Capital, Connecticut Innovations. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enhanced Capital Partners, Rand Capital, Connecticut Innovations. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Prolog Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Enhanced Capital Partners.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Advantage Capital performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Advantage Capital is 100-500 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GridPoint, Veran Medical Technologies, Cleveland HeartLab. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Medical.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
United States
Check size
2M — 15M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
1103
Lead investments
64
Exits
109
Rounds per year
34.47
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (295)
  • Health Care (116)
  • Software (102)
  • Food and Beverage (96)
  • Information Technology (66)
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Investments by region
  • United States (1021)
  • Turkey (1)
  • France (2)
  • China (2)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.12
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.35
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Exum Instruments 23 May 2023 Software Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Colorado, Denver
Huasun Energy 01 Nov 2021 Energy, Battery, Energy Management Early Stage Venture Anhui, Hefei, China

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