Future Fund

Type

Government organization

Status

Active

Location

Melbourne, Australia

Total investments

61

Average round size

49M

Portfolio companies

47

Rounds per year

3.39

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

8

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareComputer

Summary

Future Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The venture was found in Australia. The main department of described VC is located in the Melbourne.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Future Fund, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds, Wellington Management.

For fund there is no 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 TESARO, Radiology Partners, Desktop Metal. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Big Data, Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Future Fund the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Future Fund works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Australia

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
61
Lead investments
4
Exits
8
Rounds per year
3.39
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • SaaS (14)
  • Health Care (14)
  • Enterprise Software (11)
  • Information Technology (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (34)
  • China (1)
  • United Kingdom (21)
  • India (1)
  • France (1)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
443M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
10
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BuildStream 19 Aug 2019 Infrastructure, Marketplace, Construction, Renewable Energy Seed 150K United States, New York, New York
Canaree 02 Jul 2020 Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Seed 685K England, London, United Kingdom
Neurovalens 20 Jul 2020 Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science Early Stage Venture 6M Northern Ireland, Belfast, United Kingdom
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