Amino Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

143

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

109

Rounds per year

11.92

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

16

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityBlockchain

Summary

Amino Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by David Wei. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Amino Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Social Starts, Zillionize Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CRCM Ventures, 500 Startups, Greylock Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Crosslink Capital, Magma Venture Partners.

This Amino Capital works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from Amino Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DFINITY, Chime, Human Longevity The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, SaaS. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund raised date
2019-11-14

Analytics

Total investments
143
Lead investments
19
Exits
16
Rounds per year
11.92
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (54)
  • Artificial Intelligence (24)
  • Information Technology (23)
  • Machine Learning (19)
  • Mobile (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (108)
  • Switzerland (5)
  • Singapore (3)
  • China (11)
  • Morocco (1)
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Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
7
Number of Decacorns
8
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
473M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
3.69
Strategy success index
0.70

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