BAM Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Los Angeles, United States

Total investments

160

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

120

Rounds per year

16.00

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechConsumer GoodsRetailHealth CareWellnessFashionShopping

Summary

In 2014 was created BAM Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Playa Vista.

The current fund was established by Brian Lee, Richard Jun. The overall number of key employees were 3.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Digital Media, Apps. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Honey, fuboTV, Hollar. 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.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the BAM Ventures, startups are often financed by Forerunner Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Potenza Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mucker Capital, Lerer Hippeau, Brian Lee. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mucker Capital, Greycroft, Comcast Ventures.

When the investment is from BAM Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this BAM Ventures works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Seed
Check size
Up to 1M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 50000000
Fund raised date
2022-10-01

Analytics

Total investments
160
Lead investments
1
Exits
15
Rounds per year
16.00
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (52)
  • Internet (24)
  • Health Care (19)
  • Retail (18)
  • Fashion (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (145)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • South Korea (4)
  • Canada (2)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
116M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
1.53
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arro 11 Oct 2022 Seed 10M United States, California, Los Angeles
Dashy Dash 26 Jun 2023 Software, Information Technology, Restaurants Seed 3M United States, California, San Francisco
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