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Avenue Capital Group

Founders Marc Lasry Sonia Gardner

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$75M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 0.79
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 7
Key employees 18
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
  • Biopharma
  • Customer 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oliver Space

Furniture
Interior Design
Subscription Service
$36M09 Aug 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Ambow Education

Career Planning
Customer Service
EdTech
Education
$103M21 Oct 2008 Beijing

Industrial
Manufacturing
Productivity Tools
$70M23 Jun 2008 Anhui

Ambow Education

Career Planning
Customer Service
EdTech
Education
$54M10 Oct 2007 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

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Total investments 23
Average round size 75M
Rounds per year 0.79
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.52

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oliver Space

Furniture
Interior Design
Subscription Service
$36M09 Aug 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Ambow Education

Career Planning
Customer Service
EdTech
Education
$103M21 Oct 2008 Beijing

Industrial
Manufacturing
Productivity Tools
$70M23 Jun 2008 Anhui

Ambow Education

Career Planning
Customer Service
EdTech
Education
$54M10 Oct 2007 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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