Alpha Edison
Venture Capital
Active
Los Angeles, United States
102
16M
61
12.75
12
0.40
2
- Areas of investment
Summary
Alpha Edison appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Diagnostics, Video. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight IDx, HouseCanary, Aspiration. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The important activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 39 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.
The fund was created by Michael Parekh, Nate Redmond, Nick Grouf. The overall number of key employees were 1.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Alpha Edison, startups are often financed by The Chernin Group, Trail Mix Ventures, Corazon Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mucker Capital, Greycroft, Damian Maldonado. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Social Starts, Upfront Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 1M — 10M
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 102
- Lead investments
- 12
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 12.75
- Follow on index
- 0.40
- Investments by industry
- Software (22)
- Financial Services (14)
- Health Care (12)
- FinTech (11)
- SaaS (11) Show 116 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (102)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 67M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.82
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Avg. multiplicator
- 4.31
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revea | 21 Apr 2022 | Beauty, Health Diagnostics, Personal Health | Seed | 6M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| Upwards | 15 Feb 2024 | EdTech, Education, Employee Benefits, Child Care, Primary Education | Early Stage Venture | 21M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
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