DRW Venture Capital

Summary

DRW Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from DRW Venture Capital is 50-100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this DRW Venture Capital performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight RedSeal, Final, SpiderOak. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, Blockchain. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by Don Wilson. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the DRW Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Triangle Peak Partners, Techstars, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Pivot Investment Partners, MATH Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Optum Ventures, GE Ventures.