Crosscut Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Santa Monica, United States

Total investments

163

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

102

Rounds per year

10.19

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

20

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileGamingHealth CareSaaS

Summary

Crosscut Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The main department of described VC is located in the Venice. The company was established in North America in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Crosscut Ventures performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

The fund was created by Brett Brewer, Brian Garrett, Rick Smith. The overall number of key employees were 12.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Branch, SHIFT, The Black Tux Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, eSports. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Crosscut Ventures, startups are often financed by Amplify.LA, Double M Partners, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wavemaker Partners, TenOneTen Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upfront Ventures, Raine Ventures, New Enterprise Associates.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Martech/AdtechAI/Big DataClimate techConsumer/RetailBlockchain/Crypto/Web3 Show 9 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
United States
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
163
Lead investments
19
Exits
20
Rounds per year
10.19
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Software (52)
  • Mobile (23)
  • Internet (23)
  • Information Technology (22)
  • E-Commerce (21)
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Investments by region
  • United States (158)
  • Colombia (1)
Peak activity year
2021
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
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
34M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.29
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Batch.sh 08 Feb 2023 Developer Tools, Events Seed 5M United States, Oregon, Portland
Fuzzy 22 Nov 2021 Health Care, Home Health Care, mHealth, Subscription Service, Veterinary, Home Services, Consumer Applications, Pet Late Stage Venture 44M United States, California, San Francisco

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