Compound

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

216

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

141

Rounds per year

13.50

Lead investments

20

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

45

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSAppsAdvertising

Summary

Compound is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Compound, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Y Combinator, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lerer Hippeau, Greycroft, Great Oaks Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RRE Ventures, FirstMark, Lerer Hippeau.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Compound is 50-100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Thrive Market, Finova Financial, Sailthru. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Janine Yorio. The overall number of key employees were 17.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataRoboticsBiotech/Life SciencesHealthcare Show 1 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 50000000

Analytics

Total investments
216
Lead investments
20
Exits
45
Rounds per year
13.50
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Software (66)
  • SaaS (32)
  • Information Technology (29)
  • Health Care (26)
  • Internet (25)
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Investments by region
  • United States (197)
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • Canada (7)
  • Singapore (1)
  • France (1)
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Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
51M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.74
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Betterview 05 Sep 2017 Analytics, Computer Vision, Insurance Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco
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