500 Startups
3002
1M
2207
214.43
71
0.26
248
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2010 was created 500 Startups, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Mountain View. The company was established in North America in United States.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the 500 Startups, startups are often financed by Social Capital, Golden Gate Ventures, GV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valor Capital Group, Silicon Badia, Sand Hill Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wayra, Techstars, Social Starts.
The fund was created by Christine Tsai, Dave McClure. Besides them, we counted 44 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The top activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from 500 Startups is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in more than 49 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this 500 Startups works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GrabTaxi, Credit Karma, SendGrid. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Apps, Internet. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 3002
- Lead investments
- 71
- Exits
- 248
- Rounds per year
- 214.43
- Follow on index
- 0.26
- Investments by industry
- Software (644)
- E-Commerce (498)
- Financial Services (312)
- Internet (309)
- Information Technology (308) Show 609 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (1453)
- Singapore (131)
- South Korea (79)
- Indonesia (75)
- Canada (87) Show 68 more
- Peak activity year
- 2019
- Number of Unicorns
- 33
- Number of Decacorns
- 34
- Number of Minotaurs
- 6
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 48M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.55
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.59
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayenda Hotels | 28 Sep 2021 | Travel, Hospitality, Hotel | Early Stage Venture | 10M | Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| Notti Pet Food | 13 May 2024 | Seed | Jawa Tengah, Indonesia |
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