Bling Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Miami Beach, United States

Total investments

137

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

89

Rounds per year

22.83

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.34

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaS

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Team Mobot, Proper, Printify. The fund has exact preference in a number of 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. 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 most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Apps, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Benjamin Ling. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Bling Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Matrix Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Webb Investment Network, Upside Partnership. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ludlow Ventures, Bedrock Capital.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from Bling Capital the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailEcommerceAI/Big DataFintechB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Seed
Check size
Up to 500K

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 212000000
Fund raised date
2022-11-15

Analytics

Total investments
137
Lead investments
19
Rounds per year
22.83
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Software (44)
  • SaaS (26)
  • Information Technology (23)
  • Artificial Intelligence (21)
  • E-Commerce (20)
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Investments by region
  • United States (118)
  • Canada (3)
  • India (2)
  • Israel (1)
  • France (2)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
39M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Amae Health 26 Apr 2024 Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California, San Francisco
Beaubble 01 Nov 2021 Beauty, Communities Seed United States, California, Los Angeles
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