Bonfire Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Santa Monica, United States
126
9M
77
6.63
20
0.39
4
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 117 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (114)
- Germany (2)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Mauritius (1)
- Denmark (1) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- 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 |
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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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