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GSV AcceleraTE

Founders Deborah Quazzo

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Total investments 135
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 91
Rounds per year 16.88
Lead investments 17
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 11
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • EdTech
  • E-Learning
  • Software
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UpSmith

Career Planning
Human Resources
$5M22 Jan 2024 Dallas, Texas, United States

Kyron Learning

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$14M04 Dec 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

MagicSchool AI

Artificial Intelligence
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$2M28 Aug 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Mattilda

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$19M13 Jul 2023 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Maximal Learning

Artificial Intelligence
EdTech
Education
$5M31 May 2023 Bellevue, Washington, United States

AdmitKard

Analytics
Education
Higher Education
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
$6M22 Feb 2023 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

AdmitKard

Analytics
Education
Higher Education
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
$6M20 Feb 2023 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Dreamscape Learn

Digital Entertainment
Virtual Reality
$20M19 Jan 2023 Culver City, California, United States

Openhouse

EdTech
Education
$11M01 Dec 2022 Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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BookClub checks out a shiny new $20 million Series A

– BookClub, a startup that brings author-led book clubs to readers, raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Signal Peak Ventures and joined by GSV Ventures, Maveron, Backstage Capital​ and Pelion Venture Partners​.
– Other investors include the founders of MasterClass and Goodreads.

Guild Education valued at $3.75 billion with newest round

– Guild Education, a lifelong learning platform, raised $150m in Series E funding.
– The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures, D1, Emerson Collective, General Catalyst, GSV, Harrison Metal, ICONIQ, Redpoint and Salesforce Ventures.
– The company plans to grow its coaching team, expand its learning marketplaces with more short-term certificate opportunities and double down on its outreach with historically Black colleges and universities.

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Total investments 135
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 16.88
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UpSmith

Career Planning
Human Resources
$5M22 Jan 2024 Dallas, Texas, United States

Kyron Learning

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$14M04 Dec 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

MagicSchool AI

Artificial Intelligence
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$2M28 Aug 2023 Denver, Colorado, United States

Mattilda

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$19M13 Jul 2023 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Maximal Learning

Artificial Intelligence
EdTech
Education
$5M31 May 2023 Bellevue, Washington, United States

AdmitKard

Analytics
Education
Higher Education
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
$6M22 Feb 2023 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

AdmitKard

Analytics
Education
Higher Education
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
$6M20 Feb 2023 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Dreamscape Learn

Digital Entertainment
Virtual Reality
$20M19 Jan 2023 Culver City, California, United States

Openhouse

EdTech
Education
$11M01 Dec 2022 Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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