Formation Group
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225M
2
0.27
0.33
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Rounds per year
- 0.27
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (2)
- Consumer Goods (2)
- Beauty (2)
- Cosmetics (2)
- Food Delivery (1) Show 7 more
- Investments by region
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- Indonesia (1)
- United States (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 6B
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBX | 15 Dec 2016 | E-Commerce, Beauty, Cosmetics, Consumer Goods | Late Stage Venture | 60M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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