ValueAct Capital

Total investments

19

Average round size

171M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.83

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
SoftwareMobileManufacturingHardwareEnergyRenewable EnergyAgTechSolarAgricultureFarming

Summary

ValueAct Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

This organization was formed by Jeffrey Ubben. The overall number of key employees were 10.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This ValueAct Capital works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 57 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Seagate Technology PLC, Good Technology (acquired by Visto), AppHarvest For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Genetics, Energy.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the ValueAct Capital, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark, Wonder Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are G2VP, Energy Impact Partners, BoxGroup. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Azimuth Opportunity.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
9
Exits
10
Rounds per year
0.83
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (6)
  • AgTech (4)
  • Agriculture (4)
  • Hardware (3)
  • Mobile (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
  • Japan (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
31
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.53
Avg. company exit year
25
Avg. multiplicator
16.20
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Noodle 09 Jun 2020 Education, Advice, Search Engine, Tutoring Early Stage Venture 16M United States, New York, New York

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