The Accelerator Group

Total investments

32

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

1.60

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

12

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsPaymentsFinanceContentAdvertising

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
0
Exits
12
Rounds per year
1.60
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Internet (11)
  • E-Commerce (7)
  • Financial Services (6)
  • Finance (6)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (20)
  • United States (12)
Peak activity year
2008
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
267M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.46
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Adzuna 18 Jan 2012 Internet, Career Planning, Search Engine, Classifieds, Employment Seed 685K England, London, United Kingdom
Baquia 09 Dec 2010 Media and Entertainment Seed Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Skimlinks 23 Feb 2009 E-Commerce, Internet, Content, Marketing, Advertising Seed 1M England, London, United Kingdom

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