Flywheel Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Santa Fe, United States

Total investments

34

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

1.62

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
PublishingSoftwareMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingCloud ComputingConsultingTranslation Service

Summary

In 2002 was created Flywheel Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Santa Fe.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Broadcasting, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ByteLight, Lingotek, SlamData.

The top activity for fund was in 2007. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Flywheel Ventures performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Flywheel Ventures, startups are often financed by True Ventures, Verge Fund, Fort Washington Capital Partners Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, Access Venture Partners, Verge Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Fort Washington Capital Partners Group, Access Venture Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
SemiconductorsEnergyClimate tech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
3
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.62
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (18)
  • SaaS (10)
  • Enterprise Software (8)
  • Publishing (6)
  • Manufacturing (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (34)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
564K
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
0.11

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