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Valar Ventures

Founders Andrew McCormack James Fitzgerald Peter Thiel

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Total investments 168
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$40M
Portfolio companies 75
Rounds per year 12.00
Lead investments 38
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.55
Exits 10
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Banking
  • Finance
  • Software
Summary

Valar Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Andrew McCormack, James Fitzgerald, Peter Thiel. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight N26, TransferWise, Cluno. 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 Banking, Insurance.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Valar Ventures, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Goodwater Capital, Square Peg Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Third Prime, Goodwater Capital, Square Peg Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goodwater Capital, Square Peg Capital, Breyer Capital.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Valar Ventures works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Valar Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Monite

Financial Services
Payments
$6M19 Feb 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Panacea Financial

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
$24M16 Jan 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Abbey Cross

Financial Services
Information Technology
Software
$6M13 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

albo

Banking
FinTech
Mobile Apps
$40M27 Sep 2023 Mexico City, Mexico

Ivy

Information Technology
Payments
Sustainability
$20M31 Aug 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

One Trading

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$35M28 Jun 2023 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

MAJORITY

Apps
Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
$9M14 Jun 2023 Houston, Texas, United States

Atoa

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$6M08 Jun 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Parker

E-Commerce
Financial Services
$31M16 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States
News
Neo Financial announces $64 million Series B raise to accelerate growth

– Neo Financial (Neo), a financial technology company created by two of the co-founders of SkipTheDishes, announced their $64 million Series B fundraising round.
– This brings Neo’s total funding to $114 million CAD, with Valar Ventures leading both Series A and B rounds.
– With this latest capital raise, Neo will continue to grow its team from both Calgary and Winnipeg, and focus on launching new integrated fintech partnerships with retailers – a significant gap that’s underserved by incumbent banks. They will also be going beyond just ‘spending and saving’ to innovate and launch new products and features across the entire journey of Canadians’ financial lives.

Point raises $46.5 million for its premium debit card

– Challenger bank Point raised $46.5m Series B funding.
– The round was led by Valar Ventures and joined by Breyer Capital, YC Continuity and Human Capital.
– The company raised a $10.5m Series A round 18 months ago and a seed round before that, which means that Point has raised $60m in total.

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Total investments 168
Average round size 40M
Rounds per year 12.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 38
Follow on index 0.55
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Monite

Financial Services
Payments
$6M19 Feb 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Panacea Financial

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
$24M16 Jan 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Abbey Cross

Financial Services
Information Technology
Software
$6M13 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

albo

Banking
FinTech
Mobile Apps
$40M27 Sep 2023 Mexico City, Mexico

Ivy

Information Technology
Payments
Sustainability
$20M31 Aug 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

One Trading

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$35M28 Jun 2023 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

MAJORITY

Apps
Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
$9M14 Jun 2023 Houston, Texas, United States

Atoa

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$6M08 Jun 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Parker

E-Commerce
Financial Services
$31M16 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States
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