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Dreamers VC

Founders Keisuke Honda Will Smith

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$50M
Portfolio companies 31
Rounds per year 6.33
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Venture

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Medical
Summary

Dreamers VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2018. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Dreamers VC, startups are often financed by Canaan Partners, ZhenFund, Sway Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Stanford University, Will Smith, Union Square Ventures.

This organization was formed by Keisuke Honda, Will Smith.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Dreamers VC is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sandbox VR, Bolt, GRO Biosciences, Inc. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Fraud Detection, Therapeutics.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rain

Employee Benefits
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$66M21 Mar 2023 Santa Monica, California, United States

Webacy

$4M07 Feb 2023 -

buildspace

$10M15 Mar 2022 -

Arc Boat Company

$30M23 Nov 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

hai

Smart Home
$6M18 Nov 2021 Manhattan Beach, California, United States

Printify

E-Commerce
Fashion
Manufacturing
Marketplace
Printing
$45M09 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Genome Medical

Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$60M30 Aug 2021 South San Francisco, California, United States

Workstream

Human Resources
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$48M26 Aug 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Landis

Commercial
Intellectual Property
Real Estate
Residential
$165M27 Jul 2021 New York, New York, United States
News
Printify Raises $45M in Series A Funding

– Printify is a Riga, Latvia-based print on demand company.
– The company raised $45M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from H&M Group, Virgin Group, Wise, Vinted, Squarespace, RedHat and Dreamers VC.
– The new investment will be used to further expand the company’s marketplace globally.

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.

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Total investments 38
Average round size 50M
Rounds per year 6.33
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rain

Employee Benefits
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$66M21 Mar 2023 Santa Monica, California, United States

Webacy

$4M07 Feb 2023 -

buildspace

$10M15 Mar 2022 -

Arc Boat Company

$30M23 Nov 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

hai

Smart Home
$6M18 Nov 2021 Manhattan Beach, California, United States

Printify

E-Commerce
Fashion
Manufacturing
Marketplace
Printing
$45M09 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Genome Medical

Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$60M30 Aug 2021 South San Francisco, California, United States

Workstream

Human Resources
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$48M26 Aug 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Landis

Commercial
Intellectual Property
Real Estate
Residential
$165M27 Jul 2021 New York, New York, United States
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