Boost VC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Mateo, United States

Total investments

303

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

251

Rounds per year

25.25

Lead investments

25

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

22

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceVirtual RealityBitcoinCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

Boost VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Mateo.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Boost VC is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Boost VC performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The current fund was established by Adam Draper, Brayton Williams. 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 2-3 partakers. Despite the Boost VC, startups are often financed by Digital Currency Group, Y Combinator, LAUNCHub Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tim Draper, Draper Associates, The Venture Reality Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tim Draper, Pantera Capital, Digital Finance Group.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Bitcoin, Augmented Reality. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coinbase, Filecoin, Veem. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataAerospaceAR/VRBiotech/Life Sciences Show 7 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
303
Lead investments
25
Exits
22
Rounds per year
25.25
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (60)
  • Virtual Reality (59)
  • FinTech (42)
  • Bitcoin (39)
  • Blockchain (34)
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Investments by region
  • United States (211)
  • Switzerland (3)
  • France (2)
  • Canada (20)
  • China (1)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
23M
Group Appearance index
0.48
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sinn Studio Inc. 22 May 2024 Seed 2M Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Train Fitness 21 Jun 2023 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Fitness Seed 2M Ontario, Toronto, Canada

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