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Global Founders Capital

Founders Oliver Samwer

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Total investments 977
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 639
Rounds per year 88.82
Lead investments 108
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 43
Key employees 21
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2013 was created Global Founders Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Global Founders Capital, startups are often financed by Rocket Internet, LocalGlobe, Index Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kima Ventures, FundersClub, Felicis Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, LocalGlobe, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.

The fund was created by Oliver Samwer. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from Global Founders Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Global Founders Capital works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack Technologies We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Finance, Internet. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zocks

Information Technology
Software
Web Development
$5M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Simplify

Recruiting
Social Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$3M07 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Blink

$2M08 Dec 2023 -

Wind.app

FinTech
$3M28 Nov 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Defacto

B2B
Credit
E-Commerce
FinTech
Information Technology
Lending
$11M14 Nov 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Flitter

Auto Insurance
InsurTech
$4M06 Nov 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Circular

E-Commerce
Subscription Service
$1M09 Oct 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Lemonade Finance

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$33M24 Aug 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Equilibrium Energy

Commercial
Energy
Power Grid
$33M01 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Greece’s Pop Market, another dark store grocery delivery startup, gets $3.5M

– Greek startup Pop Market raised €3.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Global Founders Capital and 468 Capital.
– The company is a dark store-based on-demand grocery delivery service.

Global Founders Capital leads $9.3M investment into Awning, a real estate brokerage for individual investors

– Awning, a real estate brokerage startup, raised $9.3m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Global Founders Capital and joined by MassMutual Ventures, and several strategic angel investors.
– The company plans to use the capital to expand its portfolio of single-family rental homes in new markets.

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Total investments 977
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 88.82
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 108
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 43
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zocks

Information Technology
Software
Web Development
$5M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Simplify

Recruiting
Social Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$3M07 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Blink

$2M08 Dec 2023 -

Wind.app

FinTech
$3M28 Nov 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Defacto

B2B
Credit
E-Commerce
FinTech
Information Technology
Lending
$11M14 Nov 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Flitter

Auto Insurance
InsurTech
$4M06 Nov 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Circular

E-Commerce
Subscription Service
$1M09 Oct 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Lemonade Finance

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$33M24 Aug 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Equilibrium Energy

Commercial
Energy
Power Grid
$33M01 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
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