GSV Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

138

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

93

Rounds per year

17.25

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

11

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyE-LearningHuman ResourcesMobile AppsEdTechTrainingEducationSkill Assessment

Summary

GSV AcceleraTE appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Human Resources, SaaS. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 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 Pluralsight, Andela, Degreed.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the GSV AcceleraTE, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Reach Capital, Learn Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Reach Capital, Rethink Education, Signal Peak Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Signal Peak Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV.

The current fund was established by Deborah Quazzo. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from GSV AcceleraTE the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this GSV AcceleraTE works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Edtech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
IndiaUnited States
Check size
250K — 15M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 180000000
Fund raised date
2021-03-05

Analytics

Total investments
138
Lead investments
18
Exits
11
Rounds per year
17.25
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Education (88)
  • EdTech (56)
  • E-Learning (46)
  • Software (39)
  • Internet (22)
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Investments by region
  • United States (108)
  • India (14)
  • France (1)
  • Mexico (2)
  • Indonesia (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
12
Number of Decacorns
12

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
342M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
15.52
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AdmitKard 20 Feb 2023 Analytics, Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Higher Education, Education Early Stage Venture 6M Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India
Ethena 18 Nov 2020 Software, E-Learning, Human Resources, SaaS Seed 2M United States, New York, New York

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