AOL
38
38M
34
1.00
3
0.11
20
- Areas of investment
Summary
AOL appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1985. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the AOL, startups are often financed by StageOne Ventures, Gil Dibner, General Catalyst. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Time Warner Investments, General Catalyst, Compaq. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, Benchmark, Accel.
The current fund was established by Jim Kimsey, Steve Case. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.
When the investment is from AOL the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this AOL performs on 28 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight KAYAK, Ancestry, Blackboard. The fund has no exact preference 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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Mobile.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 38
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 20
- Rounds per year
- 1.00
- Follow on index
- 0.11
- Investments by industry
- Software (12)
- Internet (10)
- Enterprise Software (6)
- E-Commerce (5)
- Information Technology (5) Show 78 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (32)
- Finland (1)
- Israel (4)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 302M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.84
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.56
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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| Crunchbase | 06 Apr 2017 | Venture Capital, Software, Information Services, Marketing Automation, SaaS, Communities, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Sales Automation, Lead Generation | Early Stage Venture | 18M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| Moxi Digital | 23 Apr 2001 | Software, Communications Infrastructure | Early Stage Venture | 67M | United States, California, Palo Alto |
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