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FirstMark

Founders Amish Jani Lawrence Lenihan Rick Heitzmann

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Total investments 387
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$35M
Portfolio companies 171
Rounds per year 24.19
Lead investments 79
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.56
Exits 41
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Internet
  • Analytics
  • Enterprise 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aspect Build

Software
01 Oct 2024 -

Crisp

Food and Beverage
SaaS
Software
$17M25 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

Momentum

Apps
B2B
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$13M23 Jul 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

SurrealDB

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
$20M18 Jun 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Holistic AI

$100M21 May 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Backflip

FinTech
iOS
Real Estate Investment
$15M29 Apr 2024 -

Alaffia Health

Health Care
Machine Learning
$10M24 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Lago

Database
Information Technology
Software
$15M14 Mar 2024 New Castle, Delaware, United States

Authentic Insurance

B2B
Insurance
Service Industry
$11M29 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States
News
Orchard Raises $100 Million Series D, Achieves Unicorn Status

– Orchard, the company that is radically simplifying home buying and selling, announced today that it has raised $100 million in Series D funding at over a $1 billion valuation.
Accomplice led the round with participation from repeat investors FirstMark, Revolution, First American, Juxtapose and a syndicate of new investors.
– This new round of equity funding will support Orchard’s continued growth and innovation.

Data and AI operations startup Coiled nabs $21M

– Coiled, a DataOps and AIOps platform that seeks to increase access to scalable computing, announced that it raised $21 million in series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
– Coiled’s latest funding round, which saw participation from IA Ventures and FirstMark, brings its total raised to $26 million to date. Previously, the company closed a $5 million seed round led by Costanoa Ventures.
– Alongside the financing, Coiled unveiled Coiled Cloud, which lets data scientists build machine learning models using Python tools on a laptop, then transfer the model to any cloud environment to avoid vendor lock-in.

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Total investments 387
Average round size 35M
Rounds per year 24.19
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 79
Follow on index 0.56
Exits 41
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aspect Build

Software
01 Oct 2024 -

Crisp

Food and Beverage
SaaS
Software
$17M25 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

Momentum

Apps
B2B
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$13M23 Jul 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

SurrealDB

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
$20M18 Jun 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Holistic AI

$100M21 May 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Backflip

FinTech
iOS
Real Estate Investment
$15M29 Apr 2024 -

Alaffia Health

Health Care
Machine Learning
$10M24 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Lago

Database
Information Technology
Software
$15M14 Mar 2024 New Castle, Delaware, United States

Authentic Insurance

B2B
Insurance
Service Industry
$11M29 Feb 2024 New York, New York, United States
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