Fenway Summer

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Washington, United States

Total investments

69

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

44

Rounds per year

6.90

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsFinanceSaaSPersonal FinanceBankingCreditBlockchain

Summary

Fenway Summer Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. 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 Bethesda.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flexport, Circle Internet Financial, SHIFT. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Financial Services, Credit. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Fenway Summer Ventures, startups are often financed by Pivot Investment Partners, QED Investors, Western Technology Investment. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pivot Investment Partners, Camp One Ventures, Pantera Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pivot Investment Partners, Pantera Capital, Kleiner Perkins.

The current fund was established by Raj Date. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The typical startup value when the investment from Fenway Summer Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Fenway Summer Ventures works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Fintech

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
4
Exits
4
Rounds per year
6.90
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (50)
  • FinTech (34)
  • Finance (27)
  • Payments (16)
  • Banking (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (60)
  • Ireland (3)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Kenya (2)
  • Mexico (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
497M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
OROCON 06 Mar 2018 Software, SaaS, Construction, Field Support Seed 40K Latvia, Riga, Vidzeme
Parlay 14 Feb 2024 Financial Services, Banking Seed 1M United States, Virginia, Alexandria
SupportPay 13 Dec 2016 FinTech, Payments, Parenting, Legal Tech Early Stage Venture 4M United States, California, Sacramento

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