DNA Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

São Paulo, Brazil

Total investments

32

Average round size

32M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

3.20

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyFitnessHealth CareHospitalWellnessHigher EducationEducationMedicalPharmaceutical

Summary

DNA Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013.

The fund has no exact preference in some 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Clover Health, Cambridge Epigenetix, Feegow Clinic. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cloud Computing, Biotechnology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical startup value when the investment from DNA Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the DNA Capital, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, SOSV, First Round Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GV, Y Combinator, Varian Medical Systems. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Greenoaks Capital, Asset Management Ventures (AMV).

The overall number of key employees were 8.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Healthcare
Stage focus
Series CSeries ESeries DSeries BSeries A

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
7
Exits
1
Rounds per year
3.20
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (28)
  • Medical (12)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Wellness (4)
  • Pharmaceutical (3)
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Investments by region
  • Brazil (17)
  • United States (11)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • China (2)
  • Senegal (1)
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
63M
Group Appearance index
0.72

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
OMNY 01 Feb 2018 Health Care, Hospital, Big Data, Pharmaceutical Seed United States, California, San Francisco
Vitable Health 21 Oct 2020 Health Care, Health Insurance, Insurance Seed 1M United States, Pennsylvania, Ridley Township

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