Fuel Capital
Venture Capital
Active
Burlingame, United States
135
8M
94
12.27
8
0.27
14
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Fuel Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flexport, Convoy, Mesosphere. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Enterprise Software. 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 important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Fuel Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Fuel Capital the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.
This organization was formed by Brad Silverberg, Chris Howard. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Fuel Capital, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, FundersClub, Andreessen Horowitz. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Liquid 2 Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, GV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, GV, Andreessen Horowitz.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 100K — 1M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 75000000
- Fund raised date
- 2018-05-08
Analytics
- Total investments
- 135
- Lead investments
- 8
- Exits
- 14
- Rounds per year
- 12.27
- Follow on index
- 0.27
- Investments by industry
- Software (51)
- SaaS (16)
- Artificial Intelligence (16)
- Internet (16)
- E-Commerce (15) Show 185 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (128)
- Canada (1)
- Spain (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 5
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 256M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.96
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.97
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
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