Great Oaks Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

470

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

331

Rounds per year

24.74

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

88

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSAppsMarketplace

Summary

Great Oaks Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2005. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Great Oaks Venture Capital, startups are often financed by QueensBridge Venture Partners, Fabrice Grinda, ff Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Middleland Capital, GV, DCM Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Lerer Hippeau, Uncork Capital.

The current fund was established by Andrew Boszhardt, Jr.. The overall number of key employees were 3.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Advertising, Apps. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Trulia, Flatiron Health, Allbirds.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Great Oaks Venture Capital works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Great Oaks Venture Capital the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistHealthcareFintechEcommerceB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
United States
Check size
50K — 500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
470
Lead investments
15
Exits
88
Rounds per year
24.74
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (89)
  • Health Care (78)
  • Mobile (66)
  • Software (64)
  • Internet (52)
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Investments by region
  • United States (445)
  • France (2)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • India (2)
  • Spain (1)
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Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
15
Number of Decacorns
15
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
97M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.80
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Allara 09 Jun 2021 Health Care, Wellness, Medical, Nutrition Seed 2M United States, New York, Manhattan
Leverage 14 Jul 2023 Information Technology, Information Services Early Stage Venture 3M United States, New York, New York
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