Fortress

Summary

Fortress Investment Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The average startup value when the investment from Fortress Investment Group is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Fortress Investment Group works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 39 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Fortress Investment Group, startups are often financed by Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Westlake Ventures, Westlake Venture Partners, Tamir Koch. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Overstock, Zanadu Capital Partners, Tencent Holdings.

The fund was created by Peter Briger, Randal Nardone, Wes Edens. We also calculated 12 valuable employees in our database.

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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lyft, Theranos, Nubank. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are FinTech, Mobile.