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Susa Ventures

Founders Chad Byers Leo Polovets Seth Berman

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Total investments 239
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 155
Rounds per year 21.73
Lead investments 24
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 10
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
Summary

In 2013 was created Susa Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the Susa Ventures, startups are often financed by GV, Founders Fund, First Round Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Paul Buchheit, Felicis Ventures, Bloomberg Beta. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Index Ventures.

The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Susa Ventures performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Susa Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Finance, Information Technology. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Robinhood, Flexport, Andela The fund has no specific favorite in a number of 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 country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Paylode

Information Technology
Software
$5M28 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Claim

Apps
Brand Marketing
Social Network
$2M20 Dec 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Loop

FinTech
Information Technology
Logistics
Payments
$35M03 Oct 2023 -

Harmonya

Artificial Intelligence
Product Research
Retail Technology
$20M05 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Ambient

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$6M12 Jul 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Volition

E-Commerce
Hardware
Marketplace
$11M22 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Modelbit

Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$4M16 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Together

Internet
Software
$20M15 May 2023 Menlo Park, California, United States

Ansa

$5M26 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Chapter Raises $17M in Series A Funding

– Chapter is a New York-based Medicare Advisor.
– The company raised $17M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Narya Capital with participation from Susa Ventures, Maverick Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, Core Innovation Capital and Health2047 Capital Partners.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s product development efforts, expand its team of engineers and licensed advisors, and further invest in supporting its members.

Ascend raises $5.5M to provide a BNPL option for commercial insurance

– Ascend, a payments platform for insurance companies, raised $5.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by First Round Capital and joined by Susa Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Box Group and a group of angel investors.
– The company is live in 20 states.
– It offers point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments.

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Total investments 239
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 21.73
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Paylode

Information Technology
Software
$5M28 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Claim

Apps
Brand Marketing
Social Network
$2M20 Dec 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Loop

FinTech
Information Technology
Logistics
Payments
$35M03 Oct 2023 -

Harmonya

Artificial Intelligence
Product Research
Retail Technology
$20M05 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Ambient

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$6M12 Jul 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Volition

E-Commerce
Hardware
Marketplace
$11M22 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Modelbit

Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$4M16 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Together

Internet
Software
$20M15 May 2023 Menlo Park, California, United States

Ansa

$5M26 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
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