"Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Fund Raising At $100 Million Valuation".
"Guy Oseary and Ashton Kutcher's A-GRade Receives $100 Million Valuation". If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.” Exits The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. In a 2013 interview with The Daily Telegraph, Kutcher said, “If we can create efficiencies in that which is mundane, then we accelerate our paths to happiness. In a 2011 interview with The New York Times, Kutcher said, “I look for companies that solve problems in intelligent and friction-free ways and break boundaries.” The firm’s primary targets are consumer-focused businesses that change the way consumers share information, or that disrupt traditional marketplaces.
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The firm mainly takes part in Seed and Series A rounds. The Forbes article states that the team turned $30m into $250m.Īmong its portfolio companies, A-Grade has invested in Spotify, Uber, Shazam, Couple, SoundCloud, Muse, and Airbnb. In March 2016, Forbes published a comprehensive article on A-Grade Investments, entitled "How Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Built A $250 Million Portfolio With Startups Like Uber And Airbnb," with Kutcher appearing on the cover of the magazine, which became the most-widely read issue in Forbes’ 99-year history. On May 1, 2013, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Kutcher and Oseary confirmed rumors that the fund was valued at over $100 million. In 2012, Kutcher, Oseary and Burkle raised additional capital A-Grade from several billionaires, including David Geffen and Mark Cuban. Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle had invested in private equity deals individually, then, in 2010, formed A-Grade Investments to invest in technology startups as a group.
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