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What does American Express Ventures invest in?
American Express Ventures invests most often at Series B and Series C (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Electronics, Mechanical Design and Mobile.
American Express Ventures highlights
- 01
1 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Series B and Series C: 60% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 4 rounds, median $26M
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7 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- GrowthSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- ElectronicsMechanical DesignMobile
- Based in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. Tell us the right one.
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first62 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Mar
- 2025
2 rounds
- Sept
- Apr
- 2019
7 rounds
- Dec
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Jul
- Feb
- Jan
- 2018
5 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- May
- May
- Feb
- 2017
4 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- May
- 2016
4 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Mar
- Jan
- 2015
6 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- 2014
9 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2013
13 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 42 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Funds they back
1 fund commitment on record
- Managers
- 1
Every fund on record that it has committed money to, and the managers who invest it.Source: fund news.
Managers it backs most
Most recent commitments
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
7 of 30 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed7 in all
LearnVestBought by Northwestern Mutual$250MMar 2015
OpenTableBought by Priceline$2.6BJun 2014
Ness ComputingBought by OpenTable$17MFeb 2014
ClickableBought by SyncapseUndisclosedJun 2012
KeteraBought by DeemUndisclosedDec 2010
OpenTableListedUndisclosedMay 2009
AdaytumBought by CognosUndisclosedJan 2003
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.