Elephant
Venture Capital
Active
Boston, United States
48
46M
32
5.33
11
0.33
2
- Areas of investment
Summary
Elephant appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston.
The average startup value when the investment from Elephant is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Elephant, startups are often financed by Slow Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, Peterson Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TenEleven Ventures, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Green D Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Greenspring Associates, Tom Staggs.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Allbirds, Mosyle, Tecovas The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Casual Games.
The fund was created by Andrew Hunt, Jeremiah Daly. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 792000000
- Fund raised date
- 2023-08-28
Analytics
- Total investments
- 48
- Lead investments
- 11
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 5.33
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Software (18)
- E-Commerce (11)
- SaaS (7)
- Education (7)
- Network Security (6) Show 86 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (35)
- Lithuania (2)
- France (3)
- Israel (3)
- Canada (2) Show 2 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 165M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.73
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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