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The Accelerator Group

Founders Upendra Shardanand

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 1.60
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 12
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • Finance
Summary

In 2003 was created The Accelerator Group, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Mclean. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the The Accelerator Group, startups are often financed by Seedcamp, Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Index Ventures, LocalGlobe, Seedcamp. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, SV Angel, IA Ventures.

The fund was created by Upendra Shardanand. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Financial Services. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TransferWise, ERPLY, TweetDeck.

The top activity for fund was in 2008. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this The Accelerator Group performs on 5 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TransferWise

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Peer to Peer
$25M09 Jun 2014 England

Riskified

E-Commerce
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Risk Management
$1M08 Jul 2013 New York, United States

Wise

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Peer to Peer
$6M13 May 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

Adzuna

Career Planning
Classifieds
Employment
Internet
Search Engine
$1M01 Apr 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

TransferWise

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Peer to Peer
$1M17 Apr 2012 United Kingdom, England

Adzuna

Career Planning
Classifieds
Employment
Internet
Search Engine
$685K18 Jan 2012 London, England, United Kingdom

UserVoice

Product Management
Software
$1M18 Nov 2011 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Skimlinks

Advertising
Content
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketing
11 Nov 2011 London, England, United Kingdom

ERPLY

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Point of Sale
Retail
SaaS
Software
$2M22 Mar 2010 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 32
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.60
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TransferWise

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Peer to Peer
$25M09 Jun 2014 England

Riskified

E-Commerce
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Risk Management
$1M08 Jul 2013 New York, United States

Wise

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Peer to Peer
$6M13 May 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

Adzuna

Career Planning
Classifieds
Employment
Internet
Search Engine
$1M01 Apr 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

TransferWise

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Peer to Peer
$1M17 Apr 2012 United Kingdom, England

Adzuna

Career Planning
Classifieds
Employment
Internet
Search Engine
$685K18 Jan 2012 London, England, United Kingdom

UserVoice

Product Management
Software
$1M18 Nov 2011 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Skimlinks

Advertising
Content
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketing
11 Nov 2011 London, England, United Kingdom

ERPLY

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Point of Sale
Retail
SaaS
Software
$2M22 Mar 2010 New York, New York, United States
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