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Fenway Summer Ventures

Founders Raj Date

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 44
Rounds per year 6.90
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 4
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Finance
  • Payments
  • Banking
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Parlay

Banking
Financial Services
$1M14 Feb 2024 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Matic Insurance

Finance
Insurance
InsurTech
Property Insurance
$20M11 Oct 2023 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Summer​

Financial Services
$7M25 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

DigitalPay

Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$1M12 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

TangoTrade

B2B
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
01 Mar 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Resolve

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M01 Jan 2019 Oakland, California, United States

Veem

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Other Financial Services
Payments
14 Aug 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Supply Finance

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$4M13 Apr 2018 County Dublin

Future Finance

Education
Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
$47M13 Mar 2018 County Dublin

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Total investments 69
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 6.90
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Parlay

Banking
Financial Services
$1M14 Feb 2024 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Matic Insurance

Finance
Insurance
InsurTech
Property Insurance
$20M11 Oct 2023 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Summer​

Financial Services
$7M25 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

DigitalPay

Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$1M12 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

TangoTrade

B2B
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
01 Mar 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Resolve

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M01 Jan 2019 Oakland, California, United States

Veem

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Other Financial Services
Payments
14 Aug 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Supply Finance

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$4M13 Apr 2018 County Dublin

Future Finance

Education
Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
$47M13 Mar 2018 County Dublin
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