2 min video with Brian Mac Mahon what our syndicate is all about
Expert DOJO is one of the most unique investment models to hit the United States in a long time. Accelerators have existed for a long time and even thrived in the last 10 years but Expert DOJO have created an entirely new category by focusing absolutely everything on driving user and revenue growth as opposed to just investment.This obsessive focus has been instrumental in increasing our Internal Rate of Return to an unusually high level of 173% in just a few short years.
A large number of our companies are raising big rounds and we want to share our pro-rata rights with other great investors and syndicate those deals, along with other special opportunities.
Our program is just full of growth specialists to help the startups we invest in soar. That's our secret sauce. 70% of our companies are from outside the USA, which also helps us create this global bridge between the Silicon Valley investment dollars and the innovation that the rest of the world has to offer.
Since 2019 we've invested in +120 early stage startups. The valuation of the companies we invested in have increased over 300% over the past 3 years.
Expert DOJO is third most active pre-seed investor (US) since COVID-19, right after TechStars and Y Combinator. We made around 70 investments in 2021 and intend to do another 1,000 over the next 10 years. We'll not have to raise a fund over the next 3-5 years and are ready to take Expert DOJO and our portfolio companies to the next level.
We just onboarded 5 new venture partners to grow our DOJO army to scale and increase the number of investments aggressively.
Recently featured in Forbes, read the full article.
We're syndicating the deals that we've already invested in during their previous rounds. We've since our first investment brought the deals through our extensive scaling program that focuses on building and growing the business. With that being said, we've been working closely with the deals for months, if not years, before deciding to syndicate them with our network.