Pilot Group

Total investments

19

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

1.00

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
PublishingE-CommerceInternetMobileMessagingNewsVideoAdvertisingEmail MarketingPredictive Analytics

Summary

In 2003 was created Pilot Group, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Sarasota.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2008. Comparing to the other companies, this Pilot Group performs on 8 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Digital Media, Lifestyle. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zynga, Sailthru, Sailthru. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Pilot Group, startups are often financed by RRE Ventures, Auren Hoffman, ff Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RRE Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, General Catalyst. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RRE Ventures, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Lerer Hippeau.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
3
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.00
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (6)
  • Internet (3)
  • Email Marketing (3)
  • Advertising (3)
  • News (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (18)
Peak activity year
2008

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
333K
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
NextRoll 16 Sep 2008 Software, Machine Learning, Marketing, Advertising, Email Marketing, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 4M United States, California, San Francisco
PureWow 05 May 2015 Lifestyle, Fashion, Digital Media Seed 2M United States, New York

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