AFSquare

Total investments

38

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

36

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

18

Areas of investment
SoftwareMobileSaaSAppsMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareEducationMusicSocial MediaMedia and Entertainment

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Culver City. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9-10 partakers. Despite the AFSquare, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Atom Factory, Troy Carter. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GV, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz.

Comparing to the other companies, this AFSquare performs on 14 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from AFSquare is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2012.

The current fund was established by Troy Carter. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Social Media, Advertising. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Spotify, Lyft. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
1
Exits
18
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Social Media (9)
  • Software (7)
  • Music (6)
  • Mobile (5)
  • Mobile Apps (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (31)
  • Brazil (1)
  • Israel (1)
  • Australia (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
3.22
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Moat 23 Aug 2011 Business/Productivity Software, Media and Information Services (B2B), SaaS, Marketing, Advertising, Search Engine Early Stage Venture 1M United States, New York, New York
Tom Kabinet 13 Oct 2014 Publishing, E-Commerce, Internet Seed 17K The Netherlands, Netherlands, North Brabant
turntable.fm 13 Sep 2011 Music, Social Media Seed 7M United States, New York, New York
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