Anorak Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
85
4M
64
10.62
0.21
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Anorak Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars, Y Combinator, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, The Venture Reality Fund, Presence Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, Future Shape.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Vivid Vision, RosieReality, Phiar Technologies, Inc. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Health Care.
Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Anorak Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.
This organization was formed by Greg Castle. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Check size
- Up to 500K
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 10000000
- Fund raised date
- 2021-01-12
Analytics
- Total investments
- 85
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 10.62
- Follow on index
- 0.21
- Investments by industry
- Software (30)
- Virtual Reality (19)
- Internet (11)
- Augmented Reality (11)
- Information Technology (10) Show 125 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (70)
- France (1)
- Canada (2)
- Switzerland (2)
- Denmark (1) Show 2 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 217M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.80
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesh++ | 21 Oct 2021 | Internet, Hardware, Wireless | Seed | 4M | United States, Illinois, Chicago |
| beamm | 04 Jan 2022 | Software, 3D Technology, Virtual Reality, Virtual World | Seed | 340K |
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