Founders Circle Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Campbell, United States

Total investments

62

Average round size

70M

Portfolio companies

43

Rounds per year

5.64

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

27

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileGamingSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCloud Computing

Summary

Founders Circle Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Founders Circle Capital, startups are often financed by Atlas Venture, .406 Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Accomplice, Shasta Ventures, SharesPost Investment Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SharesPost Investment Management, Salesforce Ventures, Wellington Management.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DocuSign, AppDynamics, Twilio. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Cyber Security.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 62 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Founders Circle Capital performs on 13 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Founders Circle Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The current fund was established by Chris Albinson, Ken Loveless, Mike Jung. The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 355000000
Fund raised date
2021-04-27

Analytics

Total investments
62
Lead investments
14
Exits
27
Rounds per year
5.64
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Software (32)
  • Enterprise Software (14)
  • Internet (12)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Mobile (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (57)
  • India (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
20
Number of Decacorns
23
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3B
Group Appearance index
0.66
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
12.43
Strategy success index
1.00

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