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Capital Group

Founders Ken Fox

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Total investments 47
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$239M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 0.51
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 27
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
  • Software
Summary

Capital Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1931. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Didi Chuxing, Meituan-Dianping, PayPal. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Finance, Software. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Ken Fox. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the Capital Group, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Raza Venture Fund, Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Sequoia Capital, JD.com.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Capital Group works on 22 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. When the investment is from Capital Group the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IEX Group

E-Commerce
Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
Information Services
Price Comparison
Stock Exchanges
$24M01 Mar 2013 New York, New York, United States

Embedded Software
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
iOS
Software
$46M12 Feb 2007 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Spot Runner

Advertising
Internet
Service Industry
$40M01 Oct 2006 Los Angeles, California, United States

Opsware

Cloud Computing
SaaS
Software
$120M27 Jun 2000 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Terabeam

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
$105M12 Apr 2000 Washington, United States

Flashcom

Internet
Service Industry
Telecommunications
$84M05 Apr 2000 Huntington Beach, California, United States

Commerx Corp.

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Internet
Security
Telecommunications
Virtualization
$38M14 Jan 2000 Calgary, Canada

Miadora

Fashion
Internet
Jewelry
$25M17 Sep 1999 New York, United States

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Total investments 47
Average round size 239M
Rounds per year 0.51
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 27
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

IEX Group

E-Commerce
Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
Information Services
Price Comparison
Stock Exchanges
$24M01 Mar 2013 New York, New York, United States

Embedded Software
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
iOS
Software
$46M12 Feb 2007 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Spot Runner

Advertising
Internet
Service Industry
$40M01 Oct 2006 Los Angeles, California, United States

Opsware

Cloud Computing
SaaS
Software
$120M27 Jun 2000 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Terabeam

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
$105M12 Apr 2000 Washington, United States

Flashcom

Internet
Service Industry
Telecommunications
$84M05 Apr 2000 Huntington Beach, California, United States

Commerx Corp.

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Internet
Security
Telecommunications
Virtualization
$38M14 Jan 2000 Calgary, Canada

Miadora

Fashion
Internet
Jewelry
$25M17 Sep 1999 New York, United States
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