Fuel Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Burlingame, United States

Total investments

135

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

94

Rounds per year

12.27

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

14

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

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.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailEcommerceB2B/EnterpriseDeveloper ToolsCloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
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)
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Investments by region
  • 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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Quantitative data

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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