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Total investments 50
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 3.33
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Information Technology
  • FinTech
  • Software
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the a16z crypto, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Polychain, Yes VC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Polychain, Fred Ehrsam, Andreessen Horowitz. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The House Fund.

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 popular fund investment industries, there are Finance, Web Hosting. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Arweave, dYdX, CryptoKitties. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EigenLayer

Blockchain
Information Technology
Innovation Management
$100M22 Feb 2024 -

Aghanim

FinTech
Video Games
14 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Scene Infrastructure Company

Information Technology
Product Design
Software
$3M23 Jan 2024 Delaware, Ohio, United States

FORMLESS

$2M19 Dec 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dynamic Labs

Software
$13M13 Dec 2023 -

Pimlico

Blockchain
$4M07 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

IYK

Blockchain
Information Technology
Sales Automation
$16M28 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Narval

Software
$4M10 Jul 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Gensyn

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Machine Learning
$43M12 Jun 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Eco Raises $60M in Funding

– Eco, a San Francisco, CA-based smart money company, raised $60M in funding.
– The round was co-led by Activant Capital and L Catterton with participation from existing investors, including a16z Crypto, as well as new backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, LionTree Partners, Valor Equity Partners, and dozens of others.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap to consolidate all financial tools into a single wallet.

UnitedMasters Secures $50M Series B

– UnitedMasters, an independent music distribution platform and tool factory, has raised a $50m Series B round led by Apple.
A16z and Alphabet are participating again in this raise.
– United Masters is also entering a strategic partnership with Apple alongside this investment.

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Total investments 50
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 3.33
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.12
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EigenLayer

Blockchain
Information Technology
Innovation Management
$100M22 Feb 2024 -

Aghanim

FinTech
Video Games
14 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Scene Infrastructure Company

Information Technology
Product Design
Software
$3M23 Jan 2024 Delaware, Ohio, United States

FORMLESS

$2M19 Dec 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dynamic Labs

Software
$13M13 Dec 2023 -

Pimlico

Blockchain
$4M07 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

IYK

Blockchain
Information Technology
Sales Automation
$16M28 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Narval

Software
$4M10 Jul 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Gensyn

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Machine Learning
$43M12 Jun 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
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