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Formation Group

Founders Brian Koo

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$225M
Portfolio companies 2
Rounds per year 0.27
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Consumer Goods
  • Beauty
  • Cosmetics
  • Food Delivery
Summary

Formation Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Formation Group, startups are often financed by Pear Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pear Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Warburg Pincus. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, JD.com, Google.

The current fund was established by Brian Koo. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Korea. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consumer Goods, Delivery. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Go-Jek, Memebox, MyMusicTaste

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Formation Group is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MBX

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$60M15 Dec 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

MBX

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$66M09 Aug 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 3
Average round size 225M
Rounds per year 0.27
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.33
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MBX

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$60M15 Dec 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

MBX

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$66M09 Aug 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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