Bullpen Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

180

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

108

Rounds per year

12.86

Lead investments

42

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

22

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileHuman ResourcesArtificial IntelligenceMarketing AutomationSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Bullpen Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Analytics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Namely, Classy, LiveIntent Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Bullpen Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Bullpen Capital works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Bullpen Capital, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Y Combinator, True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, True Ventures, FLOODGATE. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau.

The fund was created by Paul Martino. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistMedia/ContentGaming/EsportsSportstechFoodtech
Stage focus
SeedSeries A

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 145000000
Fund raised date
2023-02-02

Analytics

Total investments
180
Lead investments
42
Exits
22
Rounds per year
12.86
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (56)
  • SaaS (35)
  • Mobile (29)
  • Enterprise Software (28)
  • E-Commerce (25)
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Investments by region
  • United States (159)
  • Canada (10)
  • Brazil (2)
  • Mexico (2)
  • Colombia (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
65M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.45
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Dopple 06 Apr 2021 E-Commerce, Retail Seed 9M United States, California, San Francisco
Flick 09 Feb 2023 Gaming, Apps, Mobile Apps, Sports Early Stage Venture 4M United States, New York
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