Bloomberg Beta

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

282

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

170

Rounds per year

25.64

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

28

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataCyber Security

Summary

Bloomberg Beta appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Bloomberg Beta seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cyber Security, Analytics. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Flexport, Shield AI, Versive

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from Bloomberg Beta is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Bloomberg Beta works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Bloomberg Beta, startups are often financed by First Round Capital, SV Angel, Susa Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Susa Ventures, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Precursor Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, GV, Y Combinator.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataMedia/ContentCybersecurityDeveloper Tools Show 7 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
300K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
282
Lead investments
18
Exits
28
Rounds per year
25.64
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (137)
  • Artificial Intelligence (69)
  • Information Technology (61)
  • Machine Learning (56)
  • SaaS (49)
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Investments by region
  • United States (253)
  • Israel (3)
  • Canada (9)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Poland (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
10
Number of Decacorns
10
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
185M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
1.71
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mechanical Orchard 07 Feb 2024 Early Stage Venture 24M United States, California, San Francisco
Repl.it 25 Apr 2023 Software, Information Technology, Communities, Cloud Computing, Developer Tools Early Stage Venture 97M United States, California, San Francisco
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