Breakaway Ventures

Total investments

24

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

1.41

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceRetailRetail TechnologyFood and BeverageFitnessBig DataFashionPersonalizationSportsBrand Marketing

Summary

In 2006 was created Breakaway Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Breakaway Ventures, startups are often financed by Founder Collective, Techstars Boston Accelerator, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are General Catalyst, Novel TMT Ventures, Guggenheim Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Signal Peak Ventures, Jump Capital, Suffolk Equity Partners.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Breakaway Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2014.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Food and Beverage, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight M.Gemi, True Fit, Fancred. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
6
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.41
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (7)
  • Food and Beverage (7)
  • Sports (7)
  • Brand Marketing (3)
  • Big Data (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
176M
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
7.99
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Oath Craft Pizza 13 Jun 2017 Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Food Trucks Early Stage Venture 7M United States, Boston, Massachusetts
Sweetgreen 18 Nov 2009 Food and Beverage, Organic Food Seed 835K United States, District of Columbia, Washington

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