Gigafund
Venture Capital
Active
Austin, United States
21
105M
14
3.00
6
0.33
- Areas of investment
Summary
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 Austin.
The current fund was established by Luke Nosek, Stephen Oskoui.
The important activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Gigafund, startups are often financed by K3 Ventures, Decacorn Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vy Capital, Vanedge Capital, Trust Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, NASA, Meyer Equity.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight The Boring Company, Golden, Sana Benefits. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 53940000
- Fund raised date
- 2022-06-23
Analytics
- Total investments
- 21
- Lead investments
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 3.00
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (7)
- Software (7)
- Insurance (4)
- Employee Benefits (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (4) Show 41 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (21)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 9B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.90
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last Energy | 16 Feb 2021 | Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Clean Energy, Energy Management, Nuclear | Early Stage Venture | 20M | United States, District of Columbia, Washington |
| Merge | 30 May 2022 | Payments, Banking, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency | Seed | 9M | England, London, United Kingdom |
| Neuralink | 29 Jul 2021 | Software, Health Care, Robotics, Medical Device, Neuroscience | Late Stage Venture | 205M | United States, California, Fremont |
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