BuildGroup

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

19

Average round size

28M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

2.38

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareBig DataCyber SecurityCloud InfrastructureOpen Source

Summary

BuildGroup is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2015. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Austin. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the BuildGroup, startups are often financed by GGV Capital, Ron Gula, Moonshots Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are General Catalyst, You & Mr Jones Brandtech Ventures, Macanta Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Catalyst, Georgian Partners, Citi Ventures.

This organization was formed by Jim Curry, Klee Kleber, Lanham Napier, Peter Freeland. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fiix Software, Yonder, VidMob.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseAnalyticsEcommerce
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 330000000
Fund raised date
2018-06-12

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
7
Exits
3
Rounds per year
2.38
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Open Source (5)
  • Machine Learning (5)
  • Artificial Intelligence (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Canada (3)
  • Switzerland (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
26M
Group Appearance index
0.74
Avg. company exit year
22

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cybrary 02 Aug 2022 Information Technology, E-Learning, Recruiting, EdTech, Training, Education, Cyber Security, Open Source Late Stage Venture 25M United States, Maryland
X-Mode Social 04 Jun 2019 Mobile, Big Data, Cyber Security, GovTech, Location Based Services, Smart Cities, Mobile Advertising Early Stage Venture 9M United States, Virginia

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