Genacast Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Miami, United States

Total investments

38

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

2.71

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.53

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataNetwork SecurityMarketplaceMarketingAdvertising

Summary

Genacast Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Enterprise Software. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DoubleVerify, ZeroFOX, Mortar Data

The typical startup value when the investment from Genacast Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Genacast Ventures performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Gil Beyda. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Genacast Ventures, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, Core Capital Partners, Core Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are First Round Capital, Core Capital Partners, Comcast Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Comcast Ventures, GV, Canaan Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceCybersecurityAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseIoT Show 1 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
9
Exits
8
Rounds per year
2.71
Follow on index
0.53
Investments by industry
  • Analytics (12)
  • Enterprise Software (9)
  • Software (8)
  • SaaS (8)
  • Internet (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (38)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
477M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
6.98
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DrayNow 13 May 2019 Logistics, Transportation, Marketplace Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Pennsylvania
Overlap.cc 25 Feb 2015 B2B, Artificial Intelligence, Task Management Seed United States, New York, New York

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