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Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Fraud Detection
  • Mobile
Summary

In 2014 was created Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. When the investment is from Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Opposing the other organizations, this Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Security, Business Development. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Gridspace, EyeVerify, Kasisto

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, startups are often financed by Think Big Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zetta Venture Partners, Wells Fargo, Two Sigma Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Two Sigma Ventures, Propel Venture Partners, Partnership Fund for New York City.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AutoCloud

27 Oct 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Charity
Financial Services
FinTech
Non Profit
Software
$8M17 Nov 2020 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

OpenRisk Technologies Inc.

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Financial Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Web
$700K29 Jan 2019 New Jersey, United States

Splice Machine

Analytics
Big Data
Information Technology
Software
$9M20 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Gridspace

Call Center
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Speech Recognition
Telecommunications
$250K16 Nov 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Gridspace

Call Center
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Speech Recognition
Telecommunications
$3M16 Jan 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Zumigo

Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Information Services
$6M22 Aug 2014 San Jose, California, United States

EyeVerify

Biometrics
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Mobile
Security
$6M20 Aug 2014 Kansas City, Kansas, United States

MotionSavvy

Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$500K01 Jun 2014 Rochester, New York, United States

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Total investments 10
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AutoCloud

27 Oct 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Charity
Financial Services
FinTech
Non Profit
Software
$8M17 Nov 2020 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

OpenRisk Technologies Inc.

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Financial Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Web
$700K29 Jan 2019 New Jersey, United States

Splice Machine

Analytics
Big Data
Information Technology
Software
$9M20 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Gridspace

Call Center
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Speech Recognition
Telecommunications
$250K16 Nov 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Gridspace

Call Center
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Speech Recognition
Telecommunications
$3M16 Jan 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Zumigo

Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Information Services
$6M22 Aug 2014 San Jose, California, United States

EyeVerify

Biometrics
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Mobile
Security
$6M20 Aug 2014 Kansas City, Kansas, United States

MotionSavvy

Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$500K01 Jun 2014 Rochester, New York, United States
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