American Express Ventures

Summary

American Express Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States. American Express Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this American Express Ventures performs on 14 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from American Express Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Financial Services. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stripe, Instacart, IZettle. 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.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the American Express Ventures, startups are often financed by General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital India, First Round Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are General Catalyst, Plug and Play, OUP (Osage University Partners). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures.