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Luminari Capital

Founders Daniel Leff

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 2.70
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Video
  • Sports
  • Digital Entertainment
  • Developer Platform
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2013 was created Luminari Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

This organization was formed by Daniel Leff. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Luminari Capital, startups are often financed by Menlo Ventures, Sky, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sky, BDMI, Third Wave Digital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sky, Scripps Networks, News Corp..

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Luminari Capital performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Luminari Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2014.

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 Information Technology, Video Streaming. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Roku, Inc., fuboTV, Thirty Labs. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MikMak

Apps
Brand Marketing
Digital Marketing
Internet
Internet Retail
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Retail
Shopping
Video
$10M03 Aug 2020 New York, United States

The Athletic

Journalism
News
Sports
$40M30 Oct 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

The Athletic

Journalism
News
Sports
$20M05 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Journalism
News
Sports
$5M25 Jul 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Journalism
News
Sports
$2M09 Jan 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Pluto TV

Apps
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video
Video Streaming
$30M12 Oct 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Naritiv

Digital Media
Mobile
Social Media Marketing
Video
$3M28 Jan 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Mino Games

Developer Platform
Gaming
Mobile
Online Games
Video Games
$2M08 Oct 2015 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

fuboTV

Digital Entertainment
Sports
Subscription Service
$4M04 Aug 2015 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 27
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 2.70
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MikMak

Apps
Brand Marketing
Digital Marketing
Internet
Internet Retail
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Retail
Shopping
Video
$10M03 Aug 2020 New York, United States

The Athletic

Journalism
News
Sports
$40M30 Oct 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

The Athletic

Journalism
News
Sports
$20M05 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Journalism
News
Sports
$5M25 Jul 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Journalism
News
Sports
$2M09 Jan 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Pluto TV

Apps
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video
Video Streaming
$30M12 Oct 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Naritiv

Digital Media
Mobile
Social Media Marketing
Video
$3M28 Jan 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Mino Games

Developer Platform
Gaming
Mobile
Online Games
Video Games
$2M08 Oct 2015 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

fuboTV

Digital Entertainment
Sports
Subscription Service
$4M04 Aug 2015 New York, New York, United States
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