Contour Venture Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

170

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

88

Rounds per year

8.95

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

22

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyFinanceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareAdvertising

Summary

Contour Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Marketing, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Datadog, SmartAsset, Bench. For fund there is a 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 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The fund was created by Matt Gorin.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Contour Venture Partners, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Quotidian Ventures, Primary Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NYC Seed, Partnership Fund for New York City, Core Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salesforce Ventures, Primary Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners.

The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Contour Venture Partners works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechB2B/EnterpriseMedia/Content
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Check size
500K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 42000000
Fund raised date
2024-05-20

Analytics

Total investments
170
Lead investments
12
Exits
22
Rounds per year
8.95
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Software (59)
  • SaaS (51)
  • Enterprise Software (39)
  • Analytics (37)
  • FinTech (36)
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Investments by region
  • United States (156)
  • Canada (6)
  • United Kingdom (3)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
175M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
11.84
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Felix 28 May 2024 FinTech, Payments, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California, San Francisco
Komi 08 Dec 2022 Seed 5M

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