City Light Capital
Venture Capital
Active
New York, United States
155
7M
111
7.75
6
0.26
10
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
City Light Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2004. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.
The high activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This City Light Capital works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from City Light Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.
This organization was formed by Josh Cohen. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ginger, RapidSOS, Digital Signal Corporation. 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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the City Light Capital, startups are often financed by Labrador Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Claremont Creek Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Rethink Education, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Highland Capital Partners, Levensohn Venture Partners, The Westly Group.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- Up to 1M
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 155
- Lead investments
- 6
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 7.75
- Follow on index
- 0.26
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (51)
- Software (39)
- Wellness (21)
- Education (18)
- Information Technology (18) Show 165 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (149)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 77M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.82
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.03
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Renewables | 27 Mar 2023 | Information Technology, Energy, Renewable Energy | Seed | 6M | United States, Washington, Seattle |
| Recurve | 17 Jun 2010 | Software, Construction, Energy Efficiency | Early Stage Venture | 8M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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