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Silas Capital

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Total investments 44
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 35
Rounds per year 3.38
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Retail
  • Wellness
  • Beauty
  • Food and Beverage
Summary

Silas Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Silas Capital, startups are often financed by Greenhouse Capital Partners, Highway1, Big Sky Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Stage 1 Fund, Lerer Hippeau, BBG Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by blisce/, Union Square Ventures, Rose Park Advisors.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. This Silas Capital works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Crowdsourcing, Health Care. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Casper, Boll & Branch, ILIA Beauty. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hello Cake

Wellness
15 Oct 2024 California, United States

Oak Essentials

Beauty
Retail
24 Sep 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

RŌZ

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
12 Aug 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Ginger Health Company (dba Wonderbelly)

Personal Health
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$12M09 Apr 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

Ceremonia

Beauty
Personal Branding
Wellness
$10M27 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

Cure Hydration

Food and Beverage
Organic
Organic Food
$5M17 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

Vacation®

$6M27 Mar 2023 Miami, Florida, United States

Makeup by Mario

Beauty
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
$40M19 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Hello Cake

Wellness
$8M27 Sep 2022 California, United States
News
Sexual Wellness Brand Cake Raises $4M in New Funding

– Sexual wellness brand Cake announced that it has raised $4 million in Seed funding, led by venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau.
– Participants in this round also include Sugar Capital, Brand Foundry Ventures, Selva Ventures, Silas Capital, Gabby Slome (Co-Founder of Ollie), Brian Bordainick (Co-Founder of Starface) and Kate Wallman (Angel investor).
– Funding now totals $5.7 million and will be dedicated to product development, scaling e-commerce, and expanding distribution with exciting new retail channels.
– Cake is a sexual wellness brand that makes products for how people actually get down, free of shame or awkwardness that’s historically been associated with this category.

Tiny Organics Raises $11M In Series A Funding

– Tiny Organics, a NYC-based early childhood nutrition company, closed an $11m Series A funding round.
– The round was led by Springdale Ventures with participation from InvestEco, Silas Capital, Human Ventures, VegInvest, Babylist, Gaingels, XFactor Ventures, Natureza and Howard Morgan.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations, build the brand and customer awareness in the market, and develop new product categories and sales channels.

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Total investments 44
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 3.38
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hello Cake

Wellness
15 Oct 2024 California, United States

Oak Essentials

Beauty
Retail
24 Sep 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

RŌZ

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
12 Aug 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Ginger Health Company (dba Wonderbelly)

Personal Health
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$12M09 Apr 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

Ceremonia

Beauty
Personal Branding
Wellness
$10M27 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

Cure Hydration

Food and Beverage
Organic
Organic Food
$5M17 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

Vacation®

$6M27 Mar 2023 Miami, Florida, United States

Makeup by Mario

Beauty
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
$40M19 Jan 2023 New York, New York, United States

Hello Cake

Wellness
$8M27 Sep 2022 California, United States
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