Bonfire Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Santa Monica, United States

Total investments

126

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

77

Rounds per year

6.63

Lead investments

20

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyB2BHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Jim Andelman, Mark Mullen. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Bonfire Ventures, startups are often financed by Root Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Amplify.LA. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Greycroft, Industry Ventures, Amplify.LA. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TenOneTen Ventures, Double M Partners, Crosscut Ventures.

The average startup value when the investment from Bonfire Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Branch, Spekit, Brainbase. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, E-Commerce. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseBlockchain/Crypto/Web3EcommerceFintechFuture of Work Show 1 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States
Check size
1M — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 230000000
Fund raised date
2022-05-31

Analytics

Total investments
126
Lead investments
20
Exits
4
Rounds per year
6.63
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (56)
  • SaaS (33)
  • Information Technology (24)
  • Analytics (16)
  • E-Commerce (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (114)
  • Germany (2)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Mauritius (1)
  • Denmark (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
25M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Credit Key 19 Oct 2022 E-Commerce, Financial Services, Payments Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California, Los Angeles
Trinity Mobile Networks 01 Jan 2018 Mobile, Wireless, Network Hardware, Visual Search Seed United States, Connecticut, New Haven

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