Golden Seeds

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

115

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

82

Rounds per year

5.75

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

7

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareMobileHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMedical DeviceMedicalTherapeutics

Summary

Golden Seeds appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2004. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Mobile. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Saladax Biomedical, Modumetal, Cognition Therapeutics

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Golden Seeds performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Besides them, we counted 30 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Golden Seeds, startups are often financed by Maine Angels, Sand Hill Angels, Innovation Works. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tech Coast Angels, Astia Angels, Sand Hill Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tech Coast Angels, Maine Angels, Astia Angels.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailHealthcare
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States
Check size
250K — 2M

Preferences and restrictions

Requirements for founders
Female

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
115
Lead investments
17
Exits
7
Rounds per year
5.75
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (31)
  • Software (23)
  • Biotechnology (20)
  • Medical Device (18)
  • Medical (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (113)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
3.72

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Materna Medical 21 May 2024 Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Early Stage Venture 5M United States, California, Mountain View
Proseeder Technologies 30 Jun 2016 Venture Capital, Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Security, Innovation Management Seed 6M United States, California, San Francisco

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