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WME Ventures

Founders Beth Ferreira

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 2.00
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Fashion
  • Food and Beverage
  • Apps
  • Video Games
Summary

WME Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The fund was created by Beth Ferreira.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the WME Ventures, startups are often financed by General Catalyst, Bullish, Lerer Hippeau. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lerer Hippeau, Yan-David Erlich, True Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), General Catalyst, Tiger Global Management.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Warby Parker, Glossier, Gusto The fund has no exact preference 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. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Food and Beverage. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from WME Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tribalist

Search Engine
Social Bookmarking
Social Media
$2M20 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Ollie

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Pet
$12M24 Aug 2017 New York, United States

Daily Harvest

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Organic Food
08 Jun 2017 New York, New York, United States

Ollie

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Pet
$4M05 Oct 2016 New York, United States

SocialTube

Advertising
$500K01 Sep 2016 Beverly Hills, California, United States

Apps
Augmented Reality
Software
Virtual Reality
$12M16 Jun 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Forge

Broadcasting
Video
Video Games
$4M09 Jun 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Project September

Apps
Fashion
Shopping
14 Apr 2016 New York, New York, United States

Forge

Broadcasting
Video
Video Games
$4M15 Mar 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 16
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 2.00
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tribalist

Search Engine
Social Bookmarking
Social Media
$2M20 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Ollie

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Pet
$12M24 Aug 2017 New York, United States

Daily Harvest

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Organic Food
08 Jun 2017 New York, New York, United States

Ollie

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Pet
$4M05 Oct 2016 New York, United States

SocialTube

Advertising
$500K01 Sep 2016 Beverly Hills, California, United States

Apps
Augmented Reality
Software
Virtual Reality
$12M16 Jun 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Forge

Broadcasting
Video
Video Games
$4M09 Jun 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Project September

Apps
Fashion
Shopping
14 Apr 2016 New York, New York, United States

Forge

Broadcasting
Video
Video Games
$4M15 Mar 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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