Capital Group

Total investments

42

Average round size

265M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

0.45

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

23

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareTelecommunicationsService Industry

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
42
Lead investments
6
Exits
23
Rounds per year
0.45
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Internet (12)
  • Financial Services (8)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Finance (6)
  • Software (6)
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Investments by region
  • China (2)
  • United States (25)
  • India (6)
  • Indonesia (1)
  • The Netherlands (1)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
12
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8B
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.03
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Spot Runner 01 Oct 2006 Internet, Advertising, Service Industry Early Stage Venture 40M United States, California, Los Angeles

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