Aol Ventures
38
6M
24
2.92
3
0.34
14
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Aol Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The company was established in North America in United States. Aol Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sailthru, Sailthru, Metamarkets. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Aol Ventures works on 8 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The important activity for fund was in 2011.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Aol Ventures, startups are often financed by RRE Ventures, True Ventures, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, Gotham Ventures, SoftBank Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gotham Ventures, True Ventures, Lerer Hippeau.
The current fund was established by Jon Brod, Michael Brown.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 38
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 14
- Rounds per year
- 2.92
- Follow on index
- 0.34
- Investments by industry
- Advertising (16)
- Mobile (13)
- E-Commerce (10)
- Analytics (9)
- Software (7) Show 56 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (37)
- Peak activity year
- 2011
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 35M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.92
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.19
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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