Conversion Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

56

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

5.09

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMessagingCyber SecuritySecurityLending

Summary

In 2012 was created Conversion Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Improbable, Even Financial, FiscalNote. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Financial Services. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Conversion Capital, startups are often financed by Rose Tech Ventures, Maveron, Madrona Venture Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Thomvest Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mohr Davidow Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Neu Venture Capital.

This organization was formed by Christian Lawless. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Conversion Capital performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Conversion Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
SeedPre-SeedSeries A
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 122000000
Fund raised date
2022-06-28

Analytics

Total investments
56
Lead investments
1
Exits
6
Rounds per year
5.09
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (29)
  • FinTech (28)
  • Financial Services (25)
  • Finance (13)
  • Analytics (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (53)
  • United Kingdom (2)
Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
454M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.34
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Baselane 08 Nov 2021 Financial Services, FinTech, Banking, Property Management, Rental Property Seed 7M United States, New York, New York
Frec 03 Oct 2023 Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Lending Early Stage Venture 26M United States, California, San Francisco

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