Grok Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Surry Hills, Australia

Total investments

45

Average round size

45M

Portfolio companies

26

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

1

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechEnterprise SoftwareRenewable EnergyLendingSolarConsumer Lending

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Surry Hills. The company was established in Australia.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cyber Security, Enterprise Software. For fund there is no 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 Zoox, Cog, August Robotics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Grok Ventures, startups are often financed by Blackbird Ventures (Australia), Index Ventures, Felicis Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Skip Capital, AirTree Ventures, Sapphire Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Skip Capital, AirTree Ventures, TDM Growth Partners.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Grok Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techCloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
45
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Renewable Energy (12)
  • Software (9)
  • Biotechnology (7)
  • Solar (5)
  • Internet (5)
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Investments by region
  • Australia (29)
  • United States (8)
  • Singapore (2)
  • China (2)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
344M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.19
Strategy success index
0.40

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