Firebolt Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

83

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

67

Rounds per year

8.30

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

4

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber Security

Summary

In 2014 was created Firebolt Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Firebolt Ventures, startups are often financed by Upside Partnership, Resolute Ventures, Harrison Metal. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tseung Kwan Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures, Resolute Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by G2H2 Capital, Tseung Kwan Ventures, TechOperators.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Firebolt Ventures the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Firebolt Ventures performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as CRM, Machine Learning. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Theta Lake, The/Studio, MachineMetrics The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The current fund was established by Cherian Mathew. The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseFintechConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 25000000
Fund raised date
2021-05-15

Analytics

Total investments
83
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
8.30
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Software (36)
  • Artificial Intelligence (20)
  • Information Technology (15)
  • SaaS (15)
  • Machine Learning (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (74)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • India (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • Colombia (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
178M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hakimo 25 Apr 2023 Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Security Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Menlo Park, California
Zingly 05 Jun 2024 Seed 10M United States, California, San Ramon
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