Blue Collective

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

63

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

54

Rounds per year

6.30

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechFood and BeverageHealth CareAppsMedicalMedia and Entertainment

Summary

Blue Collective is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Brooklyn.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Communities, FinTech. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zocdoc, MediaMath, Unqork For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Blue Collective, startups are often financed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Marc Benioff. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Winklevoss capital, VentureSouq. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Switch Ventures, e.ventures, Zetta Venture Partners.

The fund was created by Brian Stafford, JJ Kasper. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Blue Collective performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Blue Collective is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
SeedPre-Seed
Geo focus
United States
Check size
250K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
63
Lead investments
3
Exits
8
Rounds per year
6.30
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (9)
  • Software (9)
  • Health Care (8)
  • E-Commerce (8)
  • Medical (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (59)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Bangladesh (1)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
92M
Group Appearance index
0.46
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.17
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Marble 15 Nov 2022 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, InsurTech Seed 4M United States, New York, New York
Taptap Send 21 May 2020 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments Early Stage Venture 13M England, London, United Kingdom

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