Black Jays

Total investments

38

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

4.75

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetBeautySoftwareConsumer GoodsRetailArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageHealth CareFashion

Summary

Black Jays Investments is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

When the investment is from Black Jays Investments the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This Black Jays Investments works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quip, Gradient.io, Delphia. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, SaaS.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Black Jays Investments, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Social Starts, SWAT Equity Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lerer Hippeau, Tom Williams, TGZ Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vanterra Capital, Sherpa Capital, Sam Zises.

The current fund was established by Amit Sharma. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
4.75
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (10)
  • Consumer Goods (8)
  • Fashion (6)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Software (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (37)
Peak activity year
2017

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
107K
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
4

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