Forefront Venture Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boca Raton, United States

Total investments

50

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

39

Rounds per year

5.00

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSDeveloper ToolsInternet of ThingsLegal

Summary

In 2014 was created Forefront Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boca Raton.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Transportation, Home Decor. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Social Rewards, Perch, Educents For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by Barbara Corcoran, Philip Nadel. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Forefront Venture Partners, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Wefunder, Wasabi Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Shashank V Singh, Marc Bell Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Corigin Ventures, The Visuality Corporation, Sunmeet Jolly.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Forefront Venture Partners works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Forefront Venture Partners is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
200K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
50
Lead investments
6
Exits
4
Rounds per year
5.00
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (10)
  • SaaS (10)
  • Software (7)
  • Internet (6)
  • Retail (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
  • New Zealand (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
55M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.05
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fuel Me 01 Aug 2023 Cloud Management, Trading Platform, Oil and Gas, Fuel Early Stage Venture 18M United States, Illinois, Elmhurst
Meural 05 Apr 2016 Software, Hardware, Electronics, Internet of Things, Home Decor, Art Seed 3M United States, New York, New York

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