August Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

296

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

151

Rounds per year

7.40

Lead investments

60

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

75

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig Data

Summary

In 1984 was created August Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This August Capital works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from August Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the August Capital, startups are often financed by Maveron, 500 Startups, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Focus Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Shasta Ventures.

This organization was formed by David Marquardt, John Johnston. The overall number of key employees were 14.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Advertising, Enterprise Software. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight zulily, Avant, Splunk. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistMartech/AdtechAerospaceAI/Big DataBlockchain/Crypto/Web3 Show 13 more
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 450000000
Fund raised date
2015-02-13

Analytics

Total investments
296
Lead investments
60
Exits
75
Rounds per year
7.40
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Software (92)
  • Internet (55)
  • Analytics (45)
  • Enterprise Software (43)
  • E-Commerce (37)
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Investments by region
  • United States (284)
  • Canada (4)
  • Israel (1)
  • Japan (2)
  • Denmark (1)
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Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
176M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.30
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

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