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Authentic Ventures

Founders Lindsay Lee

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 2.43
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • FinTech
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SendOwl

Blogging Platforms
Digital Media
Social Media
Software
$9M16 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Humans Anonymous

$1M02 Sep 2022 -

Credit Mountain

Credit
Finance
Financial Services
$3M29 Aug 2022 Dallas, Texas, United States

Meaningful Gigs

Human Resources
Product Design
Skill Assessment
$6M18 Mar 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Sparrow

Compliance
Employee Benefits
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$20M15 Feb 2022 -

Wander

Internet
Travel
$7M04 Jun 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

Amira Learning

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Machine Learning
$11M14 Apr 2021 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

AI Insurance

Artificial Intelligence
Insurance
Machine Learning
Security
Software
31 May 2019 United States, San Francisco

Newday Financial Technologies, Inc.

Financial Services
FinTech
15 May 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 17
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 2.43
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SendOwl

Blogging Platforms
Digital Media
Social Media
Software
$9M16 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Humans Anonymous

$1M02 Sep 2022 -

Credit Mountain

Credit
Finance
Financial Services
$3M29 Aug 2022 Dallas, Texas, United States

Meaningful Gigs

Human Resources
Product Design
Skill Assessment
$6M18 Mar 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Sparrow

Compliance
Employee Benefits
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$20M15 Feb 2022 -

Wander

Internet
Travel
$7M04 Jun 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

Amira Learning

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Machine Learning
$11M14 Apr 2021 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

AI Insurance

Artificial Intelligence
Insurance
Machine Learning
Security
Software
31 May 2019 United States, San Francisco

Newday Financial Technologies, Inc.

Financial Services
FinTech
15 May 2019 San Francisco, California, United States
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