Authentic Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Oakland, United States

Total investments

17

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

2.43

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AccountingInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSecurityInsuranceProfessional Services

Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Oakland.

This Authentic Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Authentic Ventures, startups are often financed by Union Square Ventures, RRE Ventures, South Park Commons. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Tom Chiu, Tiago Paiva. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TXV Partners, Stripe, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund).

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pilot, Datatron Technologies, Super Heroic. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Financial Services.

The current fund was established by Lindsay Lee.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataDeep TechConsumer/RetailAI/Big DataB2B/Enterprise Show 1 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries B

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Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
0
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.43
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Financial Services (4)
  • Artificial Intelligence (4)
  • Machine Learning (4)
  • FinTech (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
78M
Group Appearance index
0.82
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
Amira Learning 14 Apr 2021 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Education Early Stage Venture 11M United States, Nevada, Las Vegas
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SendOwl 16 Feb 2023 Software, Social Media, Digital Media, Blogging Platforms Seed 9M England, London, United Kingdom

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