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DFS Lab

Founders Jake Kendall

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Total investments 41
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 5.86
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Logistics
  • Finance
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chargel

Logistics
$2M20 Apr 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Payday

Finance
FinTech
Payments
$3M29 Mar 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Terraa

Food Processing
Information Services
$1M13 Feb 2023 Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco

CutStruct

Construction
Procurement
Software
$600K10 Nov 2022 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Bumpa

Consumer Software
E-Commerce
Retail Technology
$4M19 Oct 2022 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Logistics Hub

Logistics
$200K01 Oct 2022 Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

Sabipay

FinTech
Information Technology
Productivity Tools
$5M15 Aug 2022 Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

Terminal

E-Commerce
Logistics
Software
Web Design
$2M01 Jun 2022 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

tushop

Communities
$3M31 Mar 2022 -

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Total investments 41
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 5.86
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.27
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chargel

Logistics
$2M20 Apr 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Payday

Finance
FinTech
Payments
$3M29 Mar 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Terraa

Food Processing
Information Services
$1M13 Feb 2023 Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco

CutStruct

Construction
Procurement
Software
$600K10 Nov 2022 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Bumpa

Consumer Software
E-Commerce
Retail Technology
$4M19 Oct 2022 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Logistics Hub

Logistics
$200K01 Oct 2022 Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

Sabipay

FinTech
Information Technology
Productivity Tools
$5M15 Aug 2022 Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

Terminal

E-Commerce
Logistics
Software
Web Design
$2M01 Jun 2022 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

tushop

Communities
$3M31 Mar 2022 -
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