DFS Lab

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Seattle, United States

Total investments

41

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

5.86

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.27

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceCosmeticsSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechRetail TechnologyFinanceBankingFood Delivery

Summary

DFS Lab appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The main department of described VC is located in the Seattle. The company was established in North America in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biometrics, Finance. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Indonesia. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TaniHub, Veridium.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 51 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the DFS Lab, startups are often financed by Spring Accelerator, Alpha JWC Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, VentureSouq, Openspace Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, VentureSouq, Michael Spencer.

The fund was created by Jake Kendall.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechEcommerceLogistics
Stage focus
SeedPre-Seed
Geo focus
AlgeriaCameroonComorosEgyptEquatorial Guinea Show 31 more
Check size
50K — 150K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
5.86
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • Financial Services (12)
  • FinTech (9)
  • Logistics (8)
  • Finance (6)
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Investments by region
  • Nigeria (10)
  • Tanzania (3)
  • Indonesia (1)
  • Egypt (3)
  • United States (2)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.73

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Appetito 03 Nov 2021 Seed 2M Cairo Governorate, Cairo, Egypt
Bumpa 19 Oct 2022 E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Consumer Software Seed 4M Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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