CSC Upshot Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

94

Average round size

964K

Portfolio companies

92

Rounds per year

11.75

Lead investments

16

Exits

7

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareAppsComputer

Summary

CSC Upshot appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 participants. Despite the CSC Upshot, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins, Tencent Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hone Capital, Crosslink Capital, Hack VC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Crosslink Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, Catalyst Investors.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Weave, Nav, People Data Labs. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Mobile Payments. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this CSC Upshot performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The fund was created by Huoy-Ming Yeh, Veronica Wu. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseAI/Big DataHealthcareFintechEcommerce
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
94
Lead investments
16
Exits
7
Rounds per year
11.75
Investments by industry
  • Software (34)
  • Health Care (13)
  • Financial Services (11)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Internet (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (83)
  • South Africa (1)
  • Brazil (2)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
242M
Group Appearance index
0.12
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
6.71
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Rappi 01 Jan 2017 Seed
Sweeten 20 Sep 2016 Internet, Construction, Home Renovation Early Stage Venture United States, New York, New York

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