When was Amidzad Partners founded?

Amidzad Partners was founded in 2000.

Where is Amidzad Partners' headquarters located?

Amidzad Partners' headquarters is located in Redwood City ( United States ).

How many companies has Amidzad Partners invested in?

Amidzad Partners has invested in 52 companies, including Lending Club & PayPal.

Which companies has Amidzad Partners invested in lately?

Verlocal & RenovoRx are the latest investments by Amidzad Partners.

What sectors does Amidzad Partners focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Amidzad Partners' portfolio are Enterprise Applications (22 investments) and Consumer (13 investments).

What stages of companies does Amidzad Partners typically invest in?

Amidzad Partners primarily invests in Seed and Series A stages.

How many exits has Amidzad Partners been involved in?

Amidzad Partners' portfolio has seen 5 IPOs and 30 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Amidzad Partners' portfolio?

There is 1 unicorn in Amidzad Partners' portfolio.

Amidzad Partners - 2025 Investor Profile, Portfolio & Team - Tracxn

Q: How big is Amidzad Partners' investment team?

Amidzad Partners has a team of 4.

Amidzad Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2000. It is primarily based out of Redwood City, United States. As of Dec 2015, Amidzad Partners has invested in 52 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it led the $1M Seed round of Ingboo along with Sunbridge Partners. This round also saw participation from Plug and Play Tech Center.

Overall, Amidzad Partners portfolio has seen 1 unicorn, 5 IPOs and 30 acquisitions including key companies like Lending Club, PayPal and Jam City. A lot of funds co-invest with Amidzad Partners, with names like DFJ sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.

Amidzad Partners has team of 4 people including 2 partners.

Key Metrics

Team Members

Saeed Amidi, Rahim Amidi & 2 more

Portfolio Count

Lending Club, PayPal & 50 more

Portfolio Sectors

Enterprise Applications, Consumer & 20 more

Portfolio Locations

United States

Rounds of Entry

Seed, Series A & 2 more

Portfolio IPOs

RenovoRx, Webs & 3 more

Portfolio Acquisitions

Zephyr, Vudu & 28 more

Portfolio Unicorns

Course Hero

Amidzad Partners has a portfolio of 52 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments are in Ingboo and VentureBeat.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure and 19 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Amidzad Partners:

1. Lending Club

P2P marketplace for consumer and business loans. It offers multiple loans including personal loans, refinancing loans, healthcare loans, SME loans, and more. It offers loans to borrowers from multiple institutional/individual investors and lenders. Loans are offered on the basis of credit assessments and user profiles.

Key facts about Lending Club

Founded Year: 2006
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $1.19B as on Dec 31, 2022
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $219M
Employee Count: 1,194 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: Shanda, Bond Capital and 45 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Oct 18, 2016
Highlight: Public

2. PayPal

A platform offering online payment solutions for consumers and businesses. The platform allows businesses to accept client payments, and individuals can use it to pay money and make online payments. It also offers users to send and receive payments, and more. The application is available on Android and iOS platforms.

Key facts about PayPal

Founded Year: 1998
Location: San Jose (United States)
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $216M
Employee Count: 27,200 as on Dec 31, 2023
Investors: Integral Capital Partners, ING and 25 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jul 26, 2022
Highlight: Public

3. Jam City

Game developer and publisher. It is an indie developer and publisher of social mobile games. It offers iPhone and iPod touch games that feature live multiplayer action in 3D environments. It provides games for social, mobile and web platforms. Some of the games developed by the company are Cookie Jam, Family Guy, Genies and Gems, and Sugar Smash. It has also published multiple games including Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery, which is a mobile game based. It generates revenue through the advertisements and in-app purchases.

Key facts about Jam City

Founded Year: 2007
Location: Culver City (United States)
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $149M
Employee Count: 551 as on Dec 31, 2021
Investors: AVX Partners, Tomorrow Ventures and 18 Others
Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Jan 16, 2019, $145M
Highlight: Acquired

4. Dropbox

Cloud-based enterprise collaboration platform for enterprise file sharing. The product modules include file hosting and security solutions, cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and more. It offers a suite of tools to help users create, share, manage, and track content. It provides features such as a pdf editor, file engagement tracking, compliance management, signature request approval, document scanning, video transcriptions, text and image search, API integration, and more. It is the tool available on the subscription-based pricing model.

Key facts about Dropbox

Founded Year: 2007
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $2.55B as on Dec 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $607M
Employee Count: 2,316 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: Darwin Ventures, InvestX and 61 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jun 08, 2021
Highlight: Public

5. Course Hero

Course Hero is a mobile-based platform providing online learning resources. The platform offers a suite of online educational resources including crowd-sourced study documents, expert tutors, customizable flashcards, and online courses. Also provides subject-specific resources including expert tutors and interactive flashcards. Provides study guides for standardized tests. Its mobile app is available for Android devices.

Key facts about Course Hero

Founded Year: 2006
Location: Redwood City (United States)
Valuation: $3.6B as on Dec 14, 2021
Stage: Series C
Total Funding till date: $478M
Employee Count: 243 as on Dec 31, 2023
Investors: The Private Shares Fund, D1 Capital Partners and 26 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series C, Dec 14, 2021, $380M
Highlight: Editors' Pick

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Amidzad Partners has made 11 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.04M, 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $400K, 2 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $6.87M and 1 investment in Venture Debt stage with an average round size of $1M.

Here are Amidzad Partners' investments by stage:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Seed	11
Series A	2
Series B	2
Venture Debt	1

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Amidzad Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Consumer, Enterprise Applications, Media & Entertainment, Retail and Travel and Hospitality Tech. Notably, it has invested in 46 Tech companies, 33 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 19 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 14 companies focusing on Software.

Here are Amidzad Partners' investments by sector:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Sector	No. of Investments
Consumer	6
Enterprise Applications	6
Media & Entertainment	3
Retail	3
Travel and Hospitality Tech	3
Others	10

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Amidzad Partners has made most investments in United States (16).

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Amidzad Partners has not made any investment in 2025 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by Amidzad Partners:

Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Dec 15, 2015	Verlocal	United States	Seed	$2.65M	VenturesLab [+2]
Jan 28, 2014	RenovoRx	United States	Series B	$1.15M	Golden Seeds [+2]
Jan 16, 2013	Fanplayr	United States	Seed	$2M	Denali Venture Partners
Oct 23, 2012	Mozio	United States	Seed	$185K	-
Oct 01, 2009	Ingboo	United States	Seed	$1M	Sunbridge Partners [+1]

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Amidzad Partners has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - Course Hero. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Course Hero which became a unicorn in 2020, 5 years before Amidzad Partners first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Amidzad Partners' portfolio:

Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
71	Course Hero	Mobile-based platform providing online learning resources	2006	EdTech	Redwood City	Series C	uxvcsez

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5 of Amidzad Partners' portfolio companies have become public. RenovoRx got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Aug 2021 at marketcap of $75.5M and Webs got listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) at marketcap of $665K.

Here are Amidzad Partners' portfolio companies that went public:

Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
RenovoRx	Aug 26, 2021	Jan 28, 2014	Series B	$1.15M
Webs	Feb 11, 2019	May 2006	Venture Debt	$1M
Dropbox	Mar 23, 2018	-	-	-
Lending Club	Dec 11, 2014	-	-	-
PayPal	Feb 15, 2002	-	-	-

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30 companies from Amidzad Partners' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Zephyr in Dec 2020 by Microsoft.

Here are Amidzad Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Zephyr	Dec 02, 2020	-	-	-
Vudu	Apr 20, 2020	-	-	-
Picaboo	Sep 25, 2019	-	-	-
Aquantia	May 06, 2019	-	-	-
Quantenna	Mar 27, 2019	-	-	-

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Amidzad Partners has a team of 4 members including 2 Partners located in United States. Amidzad Partners' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of all team members in Amidzad Partners:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Saeed Amidi	Partner	Sunnyvale	-	3 Emails
Rahim Amidi	Partner	Redwood City	-	1 Email
Mohammad Mortazavi	Advisor	-	-	-
Camran Nezhat	Advisor	-	-	-

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Over the past 21 years, 73 investors have co-invested in Amidzad Partners's portfolio companies.

Invested before Amidzad Partners: Plug and Play Tech Center has invested before Amidzad Partners.
Top Co-investors of Amidzad Partners: 29 investors entered a company along with Amidzad Partners. These include investors like DFJ (5 companies).
Invested after Amidzad Partners: A total of 43 investors have invested in Amidzad Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Columbia Capital (1 company), Novak Biddle Venture Partners (1 company) and Crosslink Capital (1 company).