FirstMark

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

381

Average round size

35M

Portfolio companies

168

Rounds per year

23.81

Lead investments

77

Follow on index

0.56

Exits

41

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

FirstMark appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the FirstMark, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, IA Ventures, Slow Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Upfront Ventures, SV Angel, Index Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Greycroft.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Airbnb, Pinterest, Discord. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Health Care.

The current fund was established by Amish Jani, Lawrence Lenihan, Rick Heitzmann. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2014. This FirstMark works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from FirstMark is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/EnterpriseBlockchain/Crypto/Web3HealthcareBiotech/Life Sciences Show 3 more
Stage focus
Seed
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 380000000
Fund raised date
2020-06-16

Analytics

Total investments
381
Lead investments
77
Exits
41
Rounds per year
23.81
Follow on index
0.56
Investments by industry
  • Software (132)
  • SaaS (83)
  • Internet (63)
  • Analytics (53)
  • Enterprise Software (48)
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Investments by region
  • United States (347)
  • France (7)
  • Canada (7)
  • United Kingdom (11)
  • Germany (2)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
14
Number of Decacorns
17
Number of Minotaurs
7

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
802M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
6.59
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Crisp 16 Sep 2019 Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS Seed 14M United States, New York, New York
SurrealDB 18 Jun 2024 Enterprise Software, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Developer Tools, Developer Platform Early Stage Venture 20M England, London, United Kingdom

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