CoinShares

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

St Helier, United Kingdom

Total investments

30

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

3.33

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.10

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsFinanceBitcoinCryptocurrencyBlockchainTrading Platform

Summary

CoinShares is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fold, Kaiko. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Payments, Financial Services.

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the CoinShares, startups are often financed by Boost VC, Anthemis Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Slow Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Goldcrest Capital.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistFintechCloud/InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Stage focus
Series ASeries B

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
3
Rounds per year
3.33
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Blockchain (11)
  • Financial Services (9)
  • Cryptocurrency (9)
  • FinTech (8)
  • Bitcoin (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Singapore (2)
  • France (4)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
129M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
30
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Vauld 29 Jul 2021 FinTech, Payments, Banking, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Early Stage Venture 25M Central, Singapore, Singapore
Compass Mining 02 Feb 2021 Bitcoin Seed 1M United States, Delaware, Wilmington
20 Nov 2018 E-Commerce Seed England, London, United Kingdom

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