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AGO Partners

Founders Alex Pomeroy Joseph N. Sanberg Matt Salzberg

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Total investments 29
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 2.90
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 4
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Pet
  • Software
  • Health Care
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Minimum

Apps
Environmental Consulting
Software
16 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Aspiration

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Social Impact
$135M21 May 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Alloy

Financial Services
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
SaaS
$3M18 Oct 2017 New York, New York, United States

FairClaims

Enterprise
Legal
SaaS
Service Industry
$285K31 Jul 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Embark

Animal Feed
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Pet
Veterinary
$1M31 May 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Juicero

Food and Beverage
Nutrition
Organic Food
$70M31 Mar 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Embark

Animal Feed
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Pet
Veterinary
02 Nov 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Clara Lending

Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
Real Estate
09 Oct 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Gaming
STEM Education
Toys
$1M15 Sep 2015 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 29
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 2.90
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Minimum

Apps
Environmental Consulting
Software
16 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Aspiration

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Social Impact
$135M21 May 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Alloy

Financial Services
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
SaaS
$3M18 Oct 2017 New York, New York, United States

FairClaims

Enterprise
Legal
SaaS
Service Industry
$285K31 Jul 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Embark

Animal Feed
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Pet
Veterinary
$1M31 May 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Juicero

Food and Beverage
Nutrition
Organic Food
$70M31 Mar 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Embark

Animal Feed
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Pet
Veterinary
02 Nov 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Clara Lending

Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
Real Estate
09 Oct 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Gaming
STEM Education
Toys
$1M15 Sep 2015 San Jose, California, United States
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