Graphene Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

43

Average round size

51M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

4.78

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceTransportationSoftwareFinTechRetailInformation TechnologyHealth CareAppsMedical Device

Summary

In 2015 was created Graphene Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Transportation, Parenting. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Snap, Lyft, Zum Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Graphene Ventures, startups are often financed by Rakuten, Alibaba Group, Didi Chuxing. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rakuten, Vickers Venture Partners, SOSV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, M13, Khosla Ventures.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Graphene Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Graphene Ventures works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The current fund was established by Alex Giannikoulis, Nabil Borhanu. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
43
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
4.78
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • Health Care (8)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Retail (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (23)
  • Saudi Arabia (3)
  • Brazil (5)
  • Canada (3)
  • United Kingdom (4)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
6.72
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fintor 06 Oct 2022 Real Estate, Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile, Apps, Real Estate Investment Seed 6M United States, California, Palo Alto
Start Careers 11 Dec 2023 Software, Recruiting, Education Seed 1M São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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