Corsa Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

18

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

1.80

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsRetail TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEnterprise Applications

Summary

Corsa Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Austin. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Alex Gruzen, Brian Grigsby. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Corsa Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars Austin Accelerator, Techstars, Silverton Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Silverton Partners, S3 Ventures, Techstars Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Silverton Partners, S3 Ventures, Techstars Ventures.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Corsa Ventures performs on 2 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Logistics, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has 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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Toopher, Bold Metrics, eyeQ.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailCommunity/Social networkCloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
0
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.80
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (5)
  • Analytics (5)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • Retail Technology (4)
  • Machine Learning (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
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
175M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
13 Dec 2015 Marketing Seed 0 United States, Austin
Bold Metrics 31 Aug 2017 Analytics, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Applications Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco
SpareFoot 01 Feb 2010 Internet, B2B, Marketplace, B2C, Self-Storage Early Stage Venture United States, Texas, Austin

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