Draft Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

26

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

2.89

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

3

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechRetailFinanceAppsMobile AppsMarketplaceAdvertising

Summary

Draft Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The fund was created by Artia Moghbel, David Rodriguez. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Draft Ventures, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Thrive Capital, Sherpa Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Matrix Partners, Greycroft, 8VC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, Collaborative Fund, Notation Capital.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Draft Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FabFitFun, Thrive Market, Livefyre. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Financial Services, Real Time. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechClimate tech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
2.89
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • Financial Services (7)
  • Apps (6)
  • Finance (4)
  • FinTech (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
  • Canada (2)
  • Spain (1)
  • Estonia (1)
  • Switzerland (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
583M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
FinanEx 03 Feb 2023 Financial Services, FinTech Seed 1M United States, Florida, Hollywood
Notion 01 Jan 2017 Software, Apps, Collaboration, Product Management, Real Time Seed United States, California, San Francisco
YESOD 07 Dec 2023 Cloud Infrastructure, Computer Early Stage Venture 5M Chiyoda, Japan
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