Craft Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
283
19M
197
40.43
43
0.29
13
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Blockchain, Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SpaceX, Bird Rides, The Boring Company.
The important activity for fund was in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Craft Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.
The current fund was established by Bill Lee, David Sacks. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Craft Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Valor Equity Partners, Social Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, SV Angel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Upfront Ventures.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 1320000000
Analytics
- Total investments
- 283
- Lead investments
- 43
- Exits
- 13
- Rounds per year
- 40.43
- Follow on index
- 0.29
- Investments by industry
- Software (91)
- Information Technology (43)
- SaaS (40)
- Artificial Intelligence (28)
- Health Care (23) Show 230 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (256)
- Canada (9)
- Australia (1)
- Switzerland (1)
- Germany (3) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 16
- Number of Decacorns
- 20
- Number of Minotaurs
- 8
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 5
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.87
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.01
- Strategy success index
- 0.90
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respell | 05 Dec 2023 | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud Computing | Seed | 4M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| Substrate | 20 Jun 2024 | Seed | 8M | United States, New York, New York |
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