Altimeter

Summary

Altimeter Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Marketplace, Cloud Computing. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Toutiao, Airbnb. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Altimeter Capital, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Sutter Hill Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Redpoint, Tencent Holdings, T. Rowe Price. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, T. Rowe Price, General Catalyst.

The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Altimeter Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Altimeter Capital works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Brad Gerstner. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.