Base Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Berkeley, United States

Total investments

100

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

80

Rounds per year

8.33

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

18

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceInternetTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileFinanceSaaSTravel

Summary

Base Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Berkeley.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Base Ventures, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Pathfinder, Felicis Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Alexis Ohanian, Kapor Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Erik Moore, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel.

The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Base Ventures works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Base Ventures the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars.

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 Zappos, 6sense, Courtagen Life Sciences. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are iOS, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Erik Moore, Kirby Harris. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailLogisticsManufacturing
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
Up to 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
100
Lead investments
4
Exits
18
Rounds per year
8.33
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (23)
  • Mobile (16)
  • E-Commerce (14)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Internet (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (95)
  • Latvia (1)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
102M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
9.44
Strategy success index
0.60

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