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Sway Ventures

Founders Bill Malloy Brent Granado Brian Nugent Darius Sankey

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Total investments 82
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$30M
Portfolio companies 51
Rounds per year 8.20
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 13
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
Summary

Sway Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Sway Ventures, startups are often financed by Formation 8, Shasta Ventures, Trident Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shasta Ventures, Formation 8, 8VC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 8VC, Shasta Ventures, Y Combinator.

The typical startup value when the investment from Sway Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. This Sway Ventures works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The current fund was established by Bill Malloy, Brent Granado, Brian Nugent, Darius Sankey. We also calculated 13 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Addepar, LE TOTE. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of 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 successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Slingshot Aerospace

Aerospace
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Geospatial
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$40M06 Dec 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Zero Grocery

Consumer Goods
Delivery Service
Grocery
Waste Management
$11M03 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

AppliedVR

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Virtual Reality
Wellness
$36M11 Nov 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Measurabl

Commercial Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
Software
Sustainability
$50M14 Sep 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Affinity

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
CRM
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$80M09 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Macrometa

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Infrastructure
Database
Information Technology
$20M15 Jun 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

AppliedVR

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Virtual Reality
Wellness
$29M23 Mar 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Omnivor

$2M05 Jan 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Macrometa

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Infrastructure
Database
Information Technology
$7M01 Oct 2020 Palo Alto, California, United States
News
Customer relationship tracker Affinity nabs $80M

– Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform designed to work with existing customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, announced that it closed an $80 million series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total raised to date to $120 million at a $600 million valuation.
Advance Venture Partners, Sprints Capital, Pear Ventures, Sway Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Teamworthy, and ECT also participated in the round, which cofounder and CEO Ray Zhou said will be put toward strengthening Affinity’s engineering team and expanding its sales and marketing reach into sectors such as investment banking, private equity, and accounting.

AppliedVR Secures $29 Million in Series A Funding to Make Virtual Reality the Standard of Care for Chronic Pain

– AppliedVR, a pioneer advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced $29m in series A funding, bringing its total funds raised to $35m.
– The round, which includes key investors F-Prime Capital, JAZZ Venture Partners, Sway Ventures, GSR Ventures, Magnetic Ventures and Cedars-Sinai, will fuel the company’s growth as it pursues full FDA approval over the next year.
– AppliedVR provides virtual reality-based treatments aimed at comprehensively treating chronic pain. Combining well-established cognitive behavioral therapies with mindfulness exercises, the company’s EaseVRx solution recently became the first VR prescription therapeutic to receive Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA for treatment-resistant fibromyalgia and chronic intractable lower back pain.

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Total investments 82
Average round size 30M
Rounds per year 8.20
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Slingshot Aerospace

Aerospace
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Geospatial
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$40M06 Dec 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Zero Grocery

Consumer Goods
Delivery Service
Grocery
Waste Management
$11M03 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

AppliedVR

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Virtual Reality
Wellness
$36M11 Nov 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Measurabl

Commercial Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
Software
Sustainability
$50M14 Sep 2021 San Diego, California, United States

Affinity

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
CRM
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$80M09 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Macrometa

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Infrastructure
Database
Information Technology
$20M15 Jun 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

AppliedVR

Enterprise Software
Health Care
Virtual Reality
Wellness
$29M23 Mar 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Omnivor

$2M05 Jan 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Macrometa

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Infrastructure
Database
Information Technology
$7M01 Oct 2020 Palo Alto, California, United States
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