Allen & Company

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Lakeland, United States

Total investments

175

Average round size

33M

Portfolio companies

132

Rounds per year

1.72

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

53

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareAdvertising

Summary

Allen & Company appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2014. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Allen & Company, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Index Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Benchmark. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Greylock Partners.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Biotechnology. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Stripe, Pandora, Chewy The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Allen & Company works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Allen & Company is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
175
Lead investments
11
Exits
53
Rounds per year
1.72
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Software (42)
  • Internet (30)
  • Mobile (26)
  • SaaS (19)
  • E-Commerce (18)
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Investments by region
  • United States (161)
  • Netherlands (3)
  • Brazil (1)
  • Canada (3)
  • Germany (1)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
14
Number of Decacorns
15
Number of Minotaurs
7

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
741M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
3.72
Strategy success index
1.00

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