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Basis Set Ventures

Founders Xuezhao Lan

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Total investments 68
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 9.71
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 4
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
  • E-Commerce
Summary

In 2017 was created Basis Set Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Basis Set Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, NGP Capital, DCM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zetta Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Start Smart Labs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GGV Capital, Zetta Venture Partners, Xplorer Capital.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Basis Set Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Drones, Automotive. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lime, Ike, Cognition IP. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

This organization was formed by Xuezhao Lan. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rasa

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Assistant
$30M14 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Norm Ai

Software
$11M23 Jan 2024 New York, New York, United States

Talofa Games

Apps
Fitness
Online Games
Wellness
$6M18 Jan 2024 Cupertino, California, United States

Echo Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$7M10 Jan 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Elicit

Artificial Intelligence
Data Center Automation
Database
Information Technology
$9M25 Sep 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Rengage

$3M12 Sep 2023 Redmond, Washington, United States

Quince

E-Commerce
Logistics
Retail
Retail Technology
$77M14 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Entendre Finance

Accounting
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
$4M01 May 2023 -

Trendsi

$25M10 Oct 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Workstream Raises $48M in Series B Funding

– Workstream, a San Francisco, CA-based hiring platform and mobile app that streamlines the sourcing and onboarding of hourly workers, raised $48m in Series B funding.
– The round was co-led by BOND and Coatue, with reinvestment from Founders Fund, and Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom; Tony Xu, CEO of DoorDash; Ryan Smith, CEO of Qualtrics; Frederic Kerrest, COO of Okta; Basis Set Ventures; CRV; Peterson Ventures; GGV Capital; Jay-Z’s RocNation; Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and others.
– The company intends to use the funds to double the size of its team with numerous hires across sales, marketing and engineering, and continue to invest in growth and product development.

Rutter comes out of stealth with $1.5M in funding for its e-commerce API

– Rutter, a remote-first company, is developing a unified e-commerce API that enables companies to connect with data across any platform.
– The company announced it was emerging from stealth with $1.5m in funding from a group of investors including Haystack, Liquid 2 and Basis Set Ventures.
– The company stumbled upon the e-commerce API idea while working in education technology last year.
– The founders said there are two big explosions going on in e-commerce: the platform side with the adoption of headless commerce — the separating of front end and back end functions of an e-commerce site, and new companies coming in to support merchants.

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Total investments 68
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 9.71
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rasa

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Assistant
$30M14 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Norm Ai

Software
$11M23 Jan 2024 New York, New York, United States

Talofa Games

Apps
Fitness
Online Games
Wellness
$6M18 Jan 2024 Cupertino, California, United States

Echo Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$7M10 Jan 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Elicit

Artificial Intelligence
Data Center Automation
Database
Information Technology
$9M25 Sep 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Rengage

$3M12 Sep 2023 Redmond, Washington, United States

Quince

E-Commerce
Logistics
Retail
Retail Technology
$77M14 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Entendre Finance

Accounting
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
$4M01 May 2023 -

Trendsi

$25M10 Oct 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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