Altos Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

366

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

186

Rounds per year

13.07

Lead investments

58

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

32

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsMobileSaaSMobile AppsAdvertising

Summary

Altos Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Coupang, Woowa Brothers, Toss 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. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Internet.

The current fund was established by Han Kim, Ho Nam. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Altos Ventures, startups are often financed by Bon Angels Venture Partners, Thomvest Ventures, Silverton Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Thomvest Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Illuminate Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Thomvest Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Illuminate Ventures.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Altos Ventures performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from Altos Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 500000000
Fund raised date
2023-06-12

Analytics

Total investments
366
Lead investments
58
Exits
32
Rounds per year
13.07
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Software (78)
  • FinTech (48)
  • Internet (47)
  • Financial Services (46)
  • SaaS (36)
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Investments by region
  • South Korea (180)
  • United States (151)
  • Germany (4)
  • Canada (8)
  • Mexico (3)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
9
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
362M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
7.08
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
KODA 23 May 2024 Seed Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Vimcal 28 Nov 2023 Seed 4M United States, California, San Francisco

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