Alchemist Accelerator

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Stanford, United States

Total investments

649

Average round size

606K

Portfolio companies

518

Rounds per year

54.08

Lead investments

61

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

38

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataInternet of Things

Summary

In 2012 was created Alchemist Accelerator, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet of Things, Enterprise Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rigetti Computing, MightyHive, NOBAL Technologies.

The current fund was established by Ravi Belani.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Alchemist Accelerator, startups are often financed by Right Side Capital Management, Wayra, Streamlined Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Plug and Play, Founder Friendly Labs, 500 Startups. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Streamlined Ventures, Social Capital, Salesforce Ventures.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. When the investment is from Alchemist Accelerator the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Alchemist Accelerator works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
649
Lead investments
61
Exits
38
Rounds per year
54.08
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (228)
  • Artificial Intelligence (123)
  • Information Technology (113)
  • SaaS (100)
  • Machine Learning (82)
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Investments by region
  • United States (537)
  • Belgium (4)
  • Canada (17)
  • Brazil (2)
  • Germany (5)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.22
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Flow Commerce 11 Jan 2016 Business/Productivity Software, Logistics, Automation/Workflow Software, E-Commerce, Internet, Supply Chain Management Seed 2M United States, New Jersey
LoopID 31 May 2024 Seed Bayern, Munich, Germany
PalleTech 21 Jan 2016 Logistics, Big Data, Internet of Things Seed 36K United States, California, San Francisco

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