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Pilot Group

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 6
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Internet
  • Email Marketing
  • Advertising
  • News
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PureWow

Digital Media
Fashion
Lifestyle
$2M05 May 2015 New York, United States

Appy Couple

Events
Mobile Apps
Wedding
$1M07 Nov 2013 New York, New York, United States

Sailthru

Advertising
Analytics
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Enterprise Software
Marketing Automation
Mobile
Predictive Analytics
Publishing
$1M26 Jul 2010 New York, United States

Betaworks

Angel Investment
Coworking
Social Media
$20M11 Mar 2010 New York, New York, United States

Project Playlist

Consumer
Internet
Machine Learning
Media and Entertainment
Messaging
Mobile
Music
Music Streaming
$20M10 Nov 2008 Palo Alto, California, United States

NextRoll

Advertising
Email Marketing
Machine Learning
Marketing
Predictive Analytics
Software
$4M16 Sep 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Proclivity Media

Advertising
Marketing
Retail
$5M01 Sep 2008 New York, New York, United States

Huddler

Internet
Mobile
$750K01 May 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Next New Networks

Video
Video Streaming
$15M12 Mar 2008 New York, United States

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Total investments 19
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PureWow

Digital Media
Fashion
Lifestyle
$2M05 May 2015 New York, United States

Appy Couple

Events
Mobile Apps
Wedding
$1M07 Nov 2013 New York, New York, United States

Sailthru

Advertising
Analytics
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Enterprise Software
Marketing Automation
Mobile
Predictive Analytics
Publishing
$1M26 Jul 2010 New York, United States

Betaworks

Angel Investment
Coworking
Social Media
$20M11 Mar 2010 New York, New York, United States

Project Playlist

Consumer
Internet
Machine Learning
Media and Entertainment
Messaging
Mobile
Music
Music Streaming
$20M10 Nov 2008 Palo Alto, California, United States

NextRoll

Advertising
Email Marketing
Machine Learning
Marketing
Predictive Analytics
Software
$4M16 Sep 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Proclivity Media

Advertising
Marketing
Retail
$5M01 Sep 2008 New York, New York, United States

Huddler

Internet
Mobile
$750K01 May 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Next New Networks

Video
Video Streaming
$15M12 Mar 2008 New York, United States
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