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137 Ventures

Founders Alex Jacobson Justin Fishner-Wolfson Kathy H. Chan

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$265M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 2.21
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.03
Exits 11
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Marketplace
  • Transportation
  • SaaS
  • Aerospace
Summary

137 Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Alex Jacobson, Justin Fishner-Wolfson, Kathy H. Chan. The overall number of key employees were 4.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Transportation. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Didi Chuxing, Spotify, Airbnb The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with more than 10 partakers. Despite the 137 Ventures, startups are often financed by Spark Capital, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are T. Rowe Price, Kleiner Perkins, Sherpa Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, SharesPost Investment Management, Kleiner Perkins.

The top activity for fund was in 2015. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from 137 Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. This 137 Ventures works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Health Care
Real Time
Software
$27M10 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Torch

Corporate Training
Education
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
Training
$40M23 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Hadrian

Aerospace
Logistics
Manufacturing
Software
Supply Chain Management
$90M31 Mar 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Podium Education

Continuing Education
E-Learning
Education
$12M15 Oct 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Podium Education

Continuing Education
E-Learning
Education
$12M14 Oct 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Fair

Automotive
Internet
Leasing
$50M05 Mar 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

Freight Service
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Supply Chain Management
$110M21 Sep 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Anduril Industries

Aerospace
Computer Vision
National Security
11 Aug 2017 Irvine, California, United States

Curology

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Health Care
$15M25 Aug 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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Workrise, once known as RigUp, raises $300M at a $2.9B valuation

– Workrise, a workforce management platform for the skilled trades, raised $300m funding.
– The round was led by U.K.-based Baillie Gifford and joined by new investor Franklin Templeton and existing backers including Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Moore Strategic Ventures, 137 Ventures and Brookfield Growth Partners.
– With this latest financing, Workrise has now raised more than $750m.
– You may know Austin-based Workrise better by its former name, RigUp. The company changed its name earlier this year to reflect a new emphasis on industries other than just oil and gas after the industry took a beating in recent years.

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Total investments 31
Average round size 265M
Rounds per year 2.21
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.03
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Verifiable

Health Care
Real Time
Software
$27M10 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Torch

Corporate Training
Education
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
Training
$40M23 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Hadrian

Aerospace
Logistics
Manufacturing
Software
Supply Chain Management
$90M31 Mar 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Podium Education

Continuing Education
E-Learning
Education
$12M15 Oct 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Podium Education

Continuing Education
E-Learning
Education
$12M14 Oct 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Fair

Automotive
Internet
Leasing
$50M05 Mar 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

Freight Service
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Supply Chain Management
$110M21 Sep 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Anduril Industries

Aerospace
Computer Vision
National Security
11 Aug 2017 Irvine, California, United States

Curology

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Health Care
$15M25 Aug 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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