8VC
Venture Capital
Active
Austin, United States
437
40M
274
48.56
42
0.36
15
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
8VC appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.
This organization was formed by Alex Kolicich, Drew Oetting, Jake Medwell, Kimmy Scotti. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the 8VC, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Thrive Capital, Sway Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Great Oaks Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Emergence.
This 8VC works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from 8VC is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.
The fund has no specific favorite 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 location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Oscar Health Insurance Co., Flexport, Guardant Health We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, SaaS. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Check size
- 100K — 50M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 880000000
- Fund raised date
- 2023-03-01
Analytics
- Total investments
- 437
- Lead investments
- 42
- Exits
- 15
- Rounds per year
- 48.56
- Follow on index
- 0.36
- Investments by industry
- Software (131)
- Health Care (78)
- SaaS (65)
- Information Technology (63)
- Biotechnology (62) Show 258 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (386)
- Colombia (7)
- United Kingdom (9)
- Canada (6)
- Israel (5) Show 4 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 20
- Number of Decacorns
- 21
- Number of Minotaurs
- 6
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 5
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 312M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.97
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.64
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Amber Therapeutics | 10 Jun 2024 | Biotechnology, Therapeutics | Early Stage Venture | 109M | England, London, United Kingdom |
QuantAMM | 06 Apr 2024 | Seed | 1M | England, London, United Kingdom |
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