Founders' Co-op

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Seattle, United States

Total investments

172

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

112

Rounds per year

10.75

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

33

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileFinanceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Founders' Co-op appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Seattle. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Andy Sack, Chris DeVore. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Founders' Co-op is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Founders' Co-op performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Outreach, Bluecore, Amperity. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Finance, Advertising. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Founders' Co-op, startups are often financed by Madrona Venture Group, Social Leverage, Maveron. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars Ventures, Social Leverage, Maveron. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Techstars.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
SeedPre-Seed
Geo focus
Check size
750K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 50000000

Analytics

Total investments
172
Lead investments
12
Exits
33
Rounds per year
10.75
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Software (49)
  • SaaS (32)
  • Analytics (27)
  • Mobile (25)
  • Internet (23)
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Investments by region
  • United States (168)
  • Israel (2)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
97M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.15
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Foundation 01 May 2023 Wholesale, E-Commerce, Retail, B2B Seed 3M United States, Washington, Bellevue
Venture Out Startups 22 May 2020 Information Technology, Finance, Business Development Seed 700K United States, Washington, Seattle

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