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American Capital

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Total investments 37
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$28M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 1.37
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 15
Key employees 30
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Security
  • Manufacturing
  • Health Care
  • Wireless
Summary

American Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bethesda.

We also calculated 30 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the American Capital, startups are often financed by Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), Redpoint, Austin Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NeoCarta Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Redpoint, Walden International, TCV.

The high activity for fund was in 2007. This American Capital works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 54 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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 fund investment industries, there are Internet, E-Commerce. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline HomeAway, Halt Medical, Geosign The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tsavo Media

Advertising
Content
Digital Media
01 Aug 2008 Santa Monica, California, United States

Halt Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$12M03 May 2007 California, United States

Coghead

Apps
Internet
PaaS
Software
Web Development
$8M28 Mar 2007 Redwood City, California, United States

HomeAway

Computer
Marketplace
Peer to Peer
Software
Tourism
Travel
$160M13 Nov 2006 Austin, Texas, United States

Coghead

Apps
Internet
PaaS
Software
Web Development
$3M01 Mar 2006 Redwood City, California, United States

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Total investments 37
Average round size 28M
Rounds per year 1.37
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.30

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tsavo Media

Advertising
Content
Digital Media
01 Aug 2008 Santa Monica, California, United States

Halt Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$12M03 May 2007 California, United States

Coghead

Apps
Internet
PaaS
Software
Web Development
$8M28 Mar 2007 Redwood City, California, United States

HomeAway

Computer
Marketplace
Peer to Peer
Software
Tourism
Travel
$160M13 Nov 2006 Austin, Texas, United States

Coghead

Apps
Internet
PaaS
Software
Web Development
$3M01 Mar 2006 Redwood City, California, United States
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