Capital Factory

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

209

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

171

Rounds per year

13.93

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

17

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Capital Factory is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Austin. The venture was found in North America in United States.

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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Analytics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SpareFoot, OutboundEngine, OneDrop Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Capital Factory, startups are often financed by Techstars, Techstars Ventures, Mercury Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Next Coast Ventures, LiveOak Venture Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mercury Fund, Noro-Moseley Partners, NextGen Venture Partners.

This organization was formed by Bryan Menell, Joshua Baer, Sam Decker. We also calculated 26 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. When the investment is from Capital Factory the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Capital Factory works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
209
Lead investments
1
Exits
17
Rounds per year
13.93
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (70)
  • SaaS (33)
  • Enterprise Software (24)
  • Information Technology (20)
  • Mobile (18)
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Investments by region
  • United States (200)
  • Canada (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
1.37
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hypergiant Sensory Sciences 30 Nov 2018 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Seed 5M United States, Texas, Dallas
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