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SWS Venture Capital

Founders Greg Jones Kirby Ryan III Steve Streit

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 3.75
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
  • Trading Platform
  • Personal Finance
Summary

SWS Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2018. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Los Angeles. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Trading Platform, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Braavo Capital, Scratch Financial. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Greg Jones, Kirby Ryan III, Steve Streit. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the SWS Venture Capital, startups are often financed by WGI Group, Upstage Ventures, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Plug and Play, e.ventures, TTV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TTV Capital, T. Rowe Price, Struck Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Scratch Financial

Finance
Financial Services
Payments
Personal Finance
Pet
Veterinary
$35M20 Sep 2022 Pasadena, California, United States

Embedded Financial Technologies

$20M27 Apr 2021 Vancouver, Washington, United States

Gatsby

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$10M15 Mar 2021 New York, United States

Landing

Leasing
Property Development
Real Estate
Rental Property
Residential
$45M12 Jan 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Paloma Health

Health Care
01 Dec 2020 New York, New York, United States

Minnow

Consumer Applications
Data Visualization
Enterprise Applications
Market Research
Media and Entertainment
Software
Video on Demand
Video Streaming
01 Nov 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Landing

Leasing
Property Development
Real Estate
Rental Property
Residential
$20M01 Dec 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Gatsby

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$2M31 Jul 2019 New York, New York, United States

Gatsby

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$500K19 Dec 2018 New York, New York, United States
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The great Gatsby raises millions to take on Robinhood

– Gatsby, a commission-free options and stock-trading app aimed at younger traders, raised $10m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Techstars Ventures, Beta Bridge Capital, a network of “super angels” placed by ClearList and an oversubscribed SeedInvest campaign. Previous investors include Barclays Bank, SWS Venture Capital and Rosecliff Ventures.
– The company also hosts a social network that can be a source for trade ideas or a place for Gatsby traders to share on their wins (or commiserate their losses).

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Total investments 15
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 3.75
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.40
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Scratch Financial

Finance
Financial Services
Payments
Personal Finance
Pet
Veterinary
$35M20 Sep 2022 Pasadena, California, United States

Embedded Financial Technologies

$20M27 Apr 2021 Vancouver, Washington, United States

Gatsby

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$10M15 Mar 2021 New York, United States

Landing

Leasing
Property Development
Real Estate
Rental Property
Residential
$45M12 Jan 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Paloma Health

Health Care
01 Dec 2020 New York, New York, United States

Minnow

Consumer Applications
Data Visualization
Enterprise Applications
Market Research
Media and Entertainment
Software
Video on Demand
Video Streaming
01 Nov 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Landing

Leasing
Property Development
Real Estate
Rental Property
Residential
$20M01 Dec 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Gatsby

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$2M31 Jul 2019 New York, New York, United States

Gatsby

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$500K19 Dec 2018 New York, New York, United States
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