Day One Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

89

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

71

Rounds per year

12.71

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSEducationMarketing

Summary

Day One Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

This organization was formed by Masha Drokova. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Public Goods, Hone, Delphia. 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 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Personal Finance, Software.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Day One Ventures performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Day One Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Social Capital, BBG Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kairos, Y Combinator, Zach Weinberg. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lucas Venture Group, Jawed Karim, Plug and Play.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataFintechClimate techB2B/Enterprise Show 4 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 150000000
Fund raised date
2024-06-11

Analytics

Total investments
89
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
12.71
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Software (20)
  • Internet (13)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • SaaS (11)
  • Financial Services (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (63)
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • Germany (1)
  • Kenya (1)
  • Norway (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
94M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Rainmaker Technology 07 May 2024 Seed 6M United States, California, El Segundo
Two 21 Mar 2023 E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, B2B, Payments Early Stage Venture 21M Oslo, Norway

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