Amazon Alexa Fund

Summary

Alexa Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Seattle. The company was established in North America in United States. Alexa Fund appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Smart Home. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ring, Tact.ai, CTRL-labs For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Alexa Fund, startups are often financed by Techstars, Webb Investment Network, Foundry Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Relay Ventures, Intel Capital, Spark Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Relay Ventures, Trilogy Equity Partners, Techstars.

The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Alexa Fund is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Alexa Fund works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.