Founder Friendly Labs

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

190

Average round size

169K

Portfolio companies

179

Rounds per year

15.83

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

27

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareBig Data

Summary

Founder Friendly Labs is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2011. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Leap.ai, Bear Robotics, Inc., United Bus Technology. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Social Media, Software. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Founder Friendly Labs, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Sand Hill Angels, ZhenFund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Andreessen Horowitz, Alchemist Accelerator, AngelPad. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, K9 Ventures, FundersClub.

The fund was created by Mendel Chuang, Samantha Quist.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Founder Friendly Labs works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries BSeries C Show 1 more
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
190
Lead investments
0
Exits
27
Rounds per year
15.83
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Software (56)
  • Artificial Intelligence (26)
  • Machine Learning (22)
  • Analytics (20)
  • Information Technology (19)
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Investments by region
  • United States (164)
  • India (3)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Canada (3)
  • Australia (1)
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Peak activity year
2019
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
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
45M
Group Appearance index
0.17
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.99
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Adomni 22 Mar 2018 Software, Computer, Advertising Seed 2M United States, Nevada, Las Vegas
Reef Finance 28 Oct 2020 Financial Services, Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Trading Platform Seed England, London, United Kingdom
Tinfoil Security 01 Sep 2011 Internet, Software, Security Seed United States, California, Palo Alto
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