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Jackson Square Ventures

Founders Bob Spinner Greg Gretsch Pete Solvik

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Total investments 90
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 6.92
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 11
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Enterprise Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Analytics
  • Health Care
Summary

Jackson Square Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Jackson Square Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Jackson Square Ventures works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by Bob Spinner, Greg Gretsch, Josh Breinlinger, Pete Solvik. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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 some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DocuSign, Upwork, OfferUp. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Jackson Square Ventures, startups are often financed by Founder Collective, Y Combinator, Accel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Founder Collective, Y Combinator, Real Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Avalon Ventures, Austin Ventures, Correlation Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OneNotary

Document Management
Document Preparation
E-Signature
Legal
Legal Tech
Real Estate
$5M26 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Harness Wealth

Consulting
Financial Services
Wealth Management
$17M05 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

GreenFig

Corporate Training
E-Learning
Higher Education
$6M21 Feb 2024 California, United States

Delta Trainer

Fitness
Software
Training
Wearables
Wellness
$6M04 Oct 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

1upHealth

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Medical Device
$40M12 Apr 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Crowdbotics

Computer
Software
$40M25 Jan 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Channel99

B2B
$5M30 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Roo

Health Care
Hospital
Veterinary
$11M02 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Extracker

Construction
CRM
Information Technology
Real Estate
SaaS
$7M08 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Sales enablement platform Seismic acquires Lessonly, nabs $170M

– Seismic, a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform based in San Diego, California, announced that it closed a $170 million series G round led by Permira, JMI Equity, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jackson Square Ventures, Ameriprise, and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price.
– The latest funding, which brings Seismic’s valuation to $3 billion and total raised to $440 million, comes as the company acquires Lessonly, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement solutions.
– The sales enablement platform market, which is expected to be worth $2.6 billion by 2024, continued to grow throughout the pandemic — largely driven by the shift to remote work.

Zenput raises $27M Series C to keep multiunit operations flowing no matter the location

– Zenput, an operations execution company, raised $27m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Golub Capital and joined by Jackson Square Ventures, MHS Capital and Goldcrest Capital.
– The company plans to use the funding to continue developing its application to automate operation procedures like tracking food safety, public health protocols and changing market conditions.

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Total investments 90
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 6.92
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OneNotary

Document Management
Document Preparation
E-Signature
Legal
Legal Tech
Real Estate
$5M26 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Harness Wealth

Consulting
Financial Services
Wealth Management
$17M05 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

GreenFig

Corporate Training
E-Learning
Higher Education
$6M21 Feb 2024 California, United States

Delta Trainer

Fitness
Software
Training
Wearables
Wellness
$6M04 Oct 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

1upHealth

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Medical Device
$40M12 Apr 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Crowdbotics

Computer
Software
$40M25 Jan 2023 Berkeley, California, United States

Channel99

B2B
$5M30 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Roo

Health Care
Hospital
Veterinary
$11M02 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Extracker

Construction
CRM
Information Technology
Real Estate
SaaS
$7M08 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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