G Squared

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

106

Average round size

160M

Portfolio companies

79

Rounds per year

8.15

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

19

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetTransportationSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechSaaSMobile AppsDeliveryInsurance

Summary

G Squared appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

This G Squared works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from G Squared the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the G Squared, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Fidelity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SharesPost Investment Management, Kleiner Perkins, Tencent Holdings.

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 Alibaba, Uber, Snap. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Peer to Peer. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailFintechInsurtechMobilityB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 1200000000
Fund raised date
2021-10-05

Analytics

Total investments
106
Lead investments
3
Exits
19
Rounds per year
8.15
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Software (30)
  • FinTech (18)
  • Financial Services (18)
  • Internet (17)
  • E-Commerce (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (80)
  • Germany (12)
  • Estonia (3)
  • Brazil (3)
  • South Korea (3)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
34
Number of Decacorns
45
Number of Minotaurs
28

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8B
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
4.38
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Alice 21 Dec 2021 Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care, Medical, Health Insurance, Employee Benefits Late Stage Venture 127M São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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