West Capital Advisors
32
8M
14
2.91
0.53
9
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
West Capital Advisors is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.
This organization was formed by Madeleine Ludlow, Mark Richey. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the West Capital Advisors, startups are often financed by Draper Triangle, Shasta Ventures, Mercury Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Triangle, Shasta Ventures, Fifth Third Bancorp. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Draper Triangle, Shasta Ventures, Serra Ventures.
Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this West Capital Advisors works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2014.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference 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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Poppin, 4moms, ShareThis. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, Health Care. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 32
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 9
- Rounds per year
- 2.91
- Follow on index
- 0.53
- Investments by industry
- Software (22)
- SaaS (15)
- Analytics (8)
- Health Care (7)
- Apps (6) Show 33 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (31)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 15
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 34M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.81
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.99
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llewo | 15 Apr 2020 | Logistics, Transportation, Oil and Gas | Early Stage Venture | 2M | Community of Madrid, Getafe, Spain |
| Poppin | 21 May 2015 | Internet, Software, Furniture, B2B, Apps, Construction | Late Stage Venture | 0 | United States, New York |
| Poppin | 18 Aug 2014 | Internet, Software, Furniture, B2B, Apps, Construction | Late Stage Venture | 17M | United States, New York, New York |
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