Macquarie Group

Total investments

41

Average round size

269M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

0.75

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

15

Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningBig DataEnergyRenewable EnergyOil and Gas

Summary

Macquarie Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 1969. The company was established in Australia. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Sydney.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, Finance. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lu.com, Dropbox, Digital Reasoning. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Stan Owens. The overall number of key employees were 23.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Macquarie Group, startups are often financed by NYSERDA, HCA, Uprising Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Royal Bank of Canada, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tailwind Capital, Sumitomo Corporation Europe Limited, SC Ventures.

This Macquarie Group works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Macquarie Group is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
9
Exits
15
Rounds per year
0.75
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Energy (14)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Financial Services (8)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
  • Renewable Energy (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (21)
  • China (4)
  • Australia (2)
  • France (1)
  • Russia (1)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.71
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aiera 12 Feb 2020 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data Early Stage Venture 7M United States, New York, New York
MTPV 12 Sep 2008 Semiconductor, Energy, Renewable Energy, Innovation Management Early Stage Venture 2M United States, Texas, Austin
Verkor 14 Sep 2023 Manufacturing, Electronics, Industrial, Battery Late Stage Venture 1B Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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