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Bling Capital

Founders Benjamin Ling

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Total investments 146
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 94
Rounds per year 24.33
Lead investments 21
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • E-Commerce
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Capitalize

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$19M14 Aug 2024 New York, New York, United States

Unthread

Customer Service
Software
$3M09 Aug 2024 New York, New York, United States

teachme.to

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$5M23 Jul 2024 San Diego, California, United States

Hypertype

Artificial Intelligence
Email
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
$840K04 Jul 2024 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Loti

$5M26 Jun 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Payabli

FinTech
Payments
Software
$20M25 Jun 2024 Miami, Florida, United States

Reviva

SaaS
Wellness
$2M11 Jun 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Amae Health

Health Care
Medical
$15M26 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Delivery Collective

$3M02 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Prive Raises $1.7M in Pre-Seed Funding

– Prive is a San Francisco, CA-based eCommerce subscriptions platform.
– The company raised $1.7M in pre-seed financing.
– The round was led by Xfund and Bling Capital, with participation from Defy Partners, Halogen Ventures, Base Case Capital, and current senior Uber executives.

Accounting firm Proper banks $9M Series A to automate property management

– Proper, an automated accounting and bookkeeping service for property managers, announced it raised $9 million in Series A funding in a round led by QED.
– Existing investors MetaProp, Expa and Bling Capital also participated in the round, which gives the San Francisco-based proptech company a total amount raised of $13.8 million.
– The company brought in $4.8 million of seed funding last August.
– Proper’s tech-enabled service is designed to execute those specific real estate accounting-related processes and apply automation to those that are repetitive.
– The company said property managers with 1,000 doors can see 63% higher profit margins and spend 45% less time per year on accounting.
– Rojas says accounting automation in real estate has been neglected with few startups stepping up to solve it like Proper is.

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Total investments 146
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 24.33
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.35
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Capitalize

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$19M14 Aug 2024 New York, New York, United States

Unthread

Customer Service
Software
$3M09 Aug 2024 New York, New York, United States

teachme.to

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$5M23 Jul 2024 San Diego, California, United States

Hypertype

Artificial Intelligence
Email
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
$840K04 Jul 2024 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Loti

$5M26 Jun 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Payabli

FinTech
Payments
Software
$20M25 Jun 2024 Miami, Florida, United States

Reviva

SaaS
Wellness
$2M11 Jun 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Amae Health

Health Care
Medical
$15M26 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Delivery Collective

$3M02 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States
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