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American Family Insurance

Founders Herman Wittwer

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.24
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 4
Key employees 19

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • InsurTech
  • Analytics
  • Smart Home
  • Insurance
Summary

American Family Insurance is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1972. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Madison. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the American Family Insurance, startups are often financed by QueensBridge Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Virgin Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Virgin Group, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, gener8tor. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Virgin Group, Felicis Ventures, Wildcat Venture Partners.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this American Family Insurance performs on 7 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides them, we counted 18 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Smart Home. The fund has no 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. 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 Ring, Networked Insights, Revolv.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Relay Platform Inc

Insurance
InsurTech
Software
$3M01 Jan 2020 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Arturo

Artificial Intelligence
Insurance
Machine Learning
Mobile
Predictive Analytics
Property Management
Publishing
Real Estate Investment
Video
28 May 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

One Concern

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Government
GovTech
Information Technology
InsurTech
Machine Learning
Natural Resources
Risk Management
SaaS
$22M19 Dec 2017 California, United States

GenLife

Health Insurance
Information Technology
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Machine Learning
03 Apr 2017 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

LeaseLock

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Property Management
Real Estate
Rental Property
$1M16 Dec 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

YourMechanic

Automotive
Consumer
E-Commerce
Logistics
Marketplace
$24M01 Mar 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

Ring

Consumer Electronics
Security
Smart Home
$28M19 Aug 2015 Santa Monica, California, United States

Revolv

Computer
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Smart Home
Software
$4M25 Nov 2013 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Shoutlet

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Marketing
Social Media Marketing
$6M06 Dec 2010 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 0.24
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Relay Platform Inc

Insurance
InsurTech
Software
$3M01 Jan 2020 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Arturo

Artificial Intelligence
Insurance
Machine Learning
Mobile
Predictive Analytics
Property Management
Publishing
Real Estate Investment
Video
28 May 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

One Concern

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Government
GovTech
Information Technology
InsurTech
Machine Learning
Natural Resources
Risk Management
SaaS
$22M19 Dec 2017 California, United States

GenLife

Health Insurance
Information Technology
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Machine Learning
03 Apr 2017 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

LeaseLock

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Property Management
Real Estate
Rental Property
$1M16 Dec 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

YourMechanic

Automotive
Consumer
E-Commerce
Logistics
Marketplace
$24M01 Mar 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

Ring

Consumer Electronics
Security
Smart Home
$28M19 Aug 2015 Santa Monica, California, United States

Revolv

Computer
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Smart Home
Software
$4M25 Nov 2013 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Shoutlet

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Marketing
Social Media Marketing
$6M06 Dec 2010 Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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