AlphaLab

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Pittsburgh, United States

Total investments

110

Average round size

111K

Portfolio companies

104

Rounds per year

7.33

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

7

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareAppsEnterprise SoftwareEducationSocial Media

Summary

In 2008 was created AlphaLab, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Pittsburgh.

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

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the AlphaLab, startups are often financed by Sand Hill Angels, Proton Enterprises, John D'Orazio. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Innovation Works, Plug and Play, Sand Hill Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Innovation Works, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, Birchmere Ventures.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Social Media. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight The Zebra, Treatspace, Jetpack Workflow. 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 is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The top activity for fund was in 2013. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this AlphaLab works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Stage focus
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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
110
Lead investments
0
Exits
7
Rounds per year
7.33
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Software (30)
  • Internet (21)
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Social Media (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (106)
  • India (1)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8M
Group Appearance index
0.15
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
1.54

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Gridwise 22 Jul 2016 Transportation, Software, Car Sharing, Delivery, Big Data, Ride Sharing, Food Delivery, Sharing Economy Seed 25K United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Profilepasser 06 Jun 2013 Internet, Recruiting, Apps, Sports Seed 25K United States, Pennsylvania, Freeport

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