EquityZen
37
87M
32
4.11
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0.14
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- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2013 was created EquityZen, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the EquityZen, startups are often financed by IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Andreessen Horowitz, Accel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SharesPost Investment Management, Tiger Global Management, Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SharesPost Investment Management, Founders Circle Capital, Manhattan Venture Partners.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from EquityZen is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. This EquityZen works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The current fund was established by Atish Davda, Phil Haslett, Shriram Bhashyam. The overall number of key employees were 5.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spotify, Lyft, DocuSign. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Security, Enterprise Software.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 37
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 26
- Rounds per year
- 4.11
- Follow on index
- 0.14
- Investments by industry
- Software (13)
- Enterprise Software (9)
- SaaS (6)
- Hardware (5)
- Cloud Computing (5) Show 83 more
- Investments by region
- United States (32)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 14
- Number of Decacorns
- 15
- Number of Minotaurs
- 7
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.46
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 3.57
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Barefoot Networks | 22 Nov 2016 | Computer, Hardware, Network Hardware | Late Stage Venture | 23M | United States, California, San Jose |
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