Comet Labs

Total investments

40

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

5.00

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareRetail TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsHardwareElectronicsPredictive AnalyticsIndustrial Automation

Summary

Comet Labs is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Saman Farid. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This Comet Labs works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Comet Labs, startups are often financed by Lux Capital, SOSV, National Science Foundation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lux Capital, Sinovation Ventures, GV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lux Capital, Legend Star, GV.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Face++ (Megvii), Orvibo, Cobalt. The fund has no specific favorite 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 Artificial Intelligence, Hardware. 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 location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
3
Exits
4
Rounds per year
5.00
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Robotics (18)
  • Software (12)
  • Machine Learning (11)
  • Artificial Intelligence (9)
  • Hardware (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (36)
  • China (3)
  • Taiwan (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
92M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arch 21 Sep 2018 Venture Capital, Software, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Electronics, Internet of Things, Wealth Management, Real Estate Investment, Hedge Funds, Predictive Analytics, Embedded Software, Industrial Automation Seed 6M United States, California, Palo Alto
Ripcord 16 May 2016 Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics, Digital Media, Office Administration Early Stage Venture 7M United States, California, Hayward

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