GoAhead Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

69

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

59

Rounds per year

7.67

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

2

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSBusiness IntelligenceAdvertisingDigital Media

Summary

GoAhead Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2017.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Sales Automation, E-Commerce. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 VideoAmp, Detective.io, FANCHEST.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the GoAhead Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, ZenShin Capital, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wavemaker Partners, Simon Equity Partners, LLC, Anthem Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wavemaker Partners, Startup Capital Ventures, Simon Equity Partners, LLC.

This organization was formed by Clancey Stahr, Phil Brady, Takeshi Mori. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAerospaceAI/Big DataAR/VRMobility Show 16 more
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
200K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 100000000
Fund raised date
2019-11-14

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
18
Exits
2
Rounds per year
7.67
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • SaaS (10)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Business Intelligence (6)
  • Advertising (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (49)
  • Canada (4)
  • Israel (5)
  • Ireland (1)
  • Japan (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
21M
Group Appearance index
0.58
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Atmos AI 18 Aug 2022 Seed 1M United States, Nashville, Tennessee
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