Ellerston Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Sydney, Australia

Total investments

38

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

1.52

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareMusicAdvertisingAnimationFilmFilm Production

Summary

Ellerston Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The venture was found in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Sydney.

The real fund results show that this VC is 44 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Ellerston Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Ellerston Capital performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Australia. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Temando, Zoom2u, Mable. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Shipping, Internet.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Ellerston Capital, startups are often financed by Tony Wales, Right Click Capital, Moelis Australia Asset Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Right Click Capital, Australian Ethical Investment, Tony Gandel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Tony Gandel, Right Click Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Geo focus
Australia

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 50000000
Fund raised date
2022-08-09

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
14
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.52
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Advertising (6)
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • Australia (35)
  • China (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
228M
Group Appearance index
0.61
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.20

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