Best Buy Capital

Total investments

11

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

9

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFitnessHealth CareWellnessManufacturingMedicalPersonal HealthHardwareWearablesSensor

Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Eden Prairie.

This Best Buy Capital works on 31 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2010. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Best Buy Capital, startups are often financed by Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, vSpring Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, vSpring Capital, iD Ventures America. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TDF Ventures, WSJ Joshua Fund, Redpoint.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Fitness, Energy. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Brammo, Viewdle, Good Natured Products Inc.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
2
Exits
6
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Sensor (2)
  • Medical (2)
  • Fitness (2)
  • Wearables (2)
  • Software (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2010

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
122M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
3.16

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Zeo 06 Jan 2011 Analytics, Manufacturing, Electronics Late Stage Venture 12M United States, Massachusetts, Newton

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