Caffeinated Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

160

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

97

Rounds per year

10.67

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

7

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMedical

Summary

In 2009 was created Caffeinated Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The current fund was established by Raymond Tonsing. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Caffeinated Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Raymond Tonsing, Andy Rankin. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Founders Fund, GGV Capital, Elad Gil. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, CRV.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Caffeinated Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Caffeinated Capital works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Apps, Blockchain. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight OpenDoor Labs, Affirm, Brex.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailHealthcareFintechBlockchain/Crypto/Web3 Show 3 more
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Check size
100K — 500K

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Analytics

Total investments
160
Lead investments
16
Exits
7
Rounds per year
10.67
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Software (49)
  • SaaS (28)
  • Information Technology (27)
  • Financial Services (26)
  • FinTech (20)
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Investments by region
  • United States (134)
  • Japan (1)
  • Canada (2)
  • Brazil (1)
  • Slovakia (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
10
Number of Decacorns
11
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
594M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
7.96
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Better Health 13 Jun 2024 Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 14M United States, California, San Francisco
Saronic 09 Oct 2023 Government, Artificial Intelligence, National Security, Drones, Marine Technology, Military Early Stage Venture 55M United States, Texas, Austin
Songkick 01 Jun 2007 Events, Music, Ticketing, Concerts, Database Seed 15K United States, New York, New York

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