Avenue Capital Group

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

25

Average round size

71M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

0.86

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyFinancial ServicesHealth CareCareer PlanningEdTechEducationManufacturingInsuranceBiopharmaCustomer Service

Summary

Avenue Capital Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1995. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The top activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Avenue Capital Group performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ambow Education For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Productivity Tools, Insurance. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Avenue Capital Group, startups are often financed by Cisco, Macquarie Capital, JAFCO Asia. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Macquarie Capital, iD TechVentures, NBP Asia Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Macquarie Capital, Actis.

This organization was formed by Marc Lasry, Sonia Gardner. The overall number of key employees were 18.

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Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
8
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.86
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (9)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Financial Services (4)
  • Biopharma (4)
  • Customer Service (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • United States (14)
  • Ireland (1)
  • Canada (2)
  • China (3)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
58M
Group Appearance index
0.48
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.56
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Oliver Space 09 Aug 2022 Furniture, Subscription Service, Interior Design Early Stage Venture 36M United States, California, San Francisco

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