Smallcap World Fund – Startup Investor Profile

Smallcap World Fund is a California-based venture capital firm that invests in the public equity markets across the globe.

Location: Los Angeles

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Investment Stages: seed

Website: http://www.americanfunds.com/funds/details/scwf/a.html

AI Reasoning: Searches found information about American Funds SMALLCAP World Fund (SMCWX/SFCWX) as a mutual fund with public equity holdings; no news or press releases were found indicating specific investment into a startup or new company within the past 12 months. The most recent general fund reports and summaries referenced performance updates in late 2024 and 2025 but did not list discrete new investments into companies that would indicate recent deal activity. Given lack of evidence of any known investment in the past 12 months, classify as not-active. Example holdings referenced historically include public companies in the fund portfolio (e.g., J B Chemicals noted in aggregated holdings), but no recent new investment press was found.

Not Active – No known investments in the last 12 months.

Low Activity – Only known investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Active – Known investments between the last 6 and 3 months.

Very Active – Known investments in the last 3 months.