AGO Partners

Total investments

29

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

2.90

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

4

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechMobileGamingFood and BeverageHealth CareAppsPet

Summary

In 2013 was created AGO Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the AGO Partners, startups are often financed by First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Slow Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Slow Ventures, Thrive Capital, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Slow Ventures, FJ Labs, UP2398.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Blue Apron, Aspiration, Able Lending We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Internet. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This AGO Partners works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from AGO Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

This organization was formed by Alex Pomeroy, Joseph N. Sanberg, Matt Salzberg. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
29
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
2.90
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (8)
  • FinTech (6)
  • Pet (5)
  • Software (5)
  • Health Care (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
  • United Kingdom (2)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
106M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bright Funds 10 Jun 2015 Internet, Financial Services, Non Profit Seed 1M United States, California, Oakland
Petnet 21 Jan 2014 Software, Robotics, Hardware, Pet Seed 1M United States, California, Los Angeles
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