Bow Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

48

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

6.00

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

2

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSRobotics

Summary

In 2016 was created Bow Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The current fund was established by Grady Burnett, Vivek Ranadive. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Bow Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, DBL Investors, Amplify.LA. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Halogen Ventures, GV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, GV, Vy Capital.

When the investment is from Bow Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Bow Capital performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Evolve Biosystems, RealtyShares, The Flex Company. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consumer Goods, Manufacturing.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareFintechAI/Big DataMedia/ContentGovtech/Legaltech
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Check size
From 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
48
Lead investments
7
Exits
2
Rounds per year
6.00
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (16)
  • Artificial Intelligence (12)
  • E-Commerce (9)
  • Biotechnology (6)
  • SaaS (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
166M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
GrayMatter Robotics 20 Jun 2024 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics Early Stage Venture 45M United States, California, Los Angeles
Merit 01 Feb 2018 Internet, Software, Information Technology, Information Services, GovTech, Web Apps Seed 9M United States, California
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