Hack VC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

173

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

135

Rounds per year

24.71

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

Hack VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Hack VC works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Hack VC is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

This organization was formed by Ed Roman. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Hack VC, startups are often financed by Trinity Ventures, E-Merge, Daniel Curran. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Brad Flora. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Plug and Play, Pelion Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Weave, Solugen, ProtectWise. 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 Enterprise Software, Internet.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 200000000
Fund raised date
2024-02-20

Analytics

Total investments
173
Lead investments
16
Exits
3
Rounds per year
24.71
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Software (47)
  • Financial Services (23)
  • Blockchain (23)
  • Cryptocurrency (22)
  • FinTech (20)
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Investments by region
  • United States (110)
  • Singapore (7)
  • Germany (3)
  • Mexico (6)
  • Nigeria (4)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
59M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

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