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Genacast Ventures

Founders Gil Beyda

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 2.71
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.53
Exits 8
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Analytics
  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Internet
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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Total investments 38
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 2.71
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.53
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

DrayNow

Logistics
Marketplace
Transportation
$2M14 Oct 2020 Pennsylvania, United States

Confetti

B2B
Employee Benefits
Event Management
Events
Leisure
Sports
$2M23 Oct 2019 New York, New York, United States

BigID

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Network Security
Privacy
Risk Management
Security
Software
$50M05 Sep 2019 New York, New York, United States

DrayNow

Logistics
Marketplace
Transportation
$4M13 May 2019 Pennsylvania, United States

DrayNow

Logistics
Marketplace
Transportation
$5M28 Aug 2018 Pennsylvania, United States

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Computer
Cryptocurrency
Ethereum
FinTech
$3M06 Mar 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Blockdaemon

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Cloud Infrastructure
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01 Mar 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

DrayNow

Logistics
Marketplace
Transportation
$750K11 Sep 2017 Pennsylvania, United States

DrayNow

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$1M24 Feb 2017 Pennsylvania, United States
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