Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund
11
24M
10
1
0.09
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Hearstu2019s Financial Venture Fund, startups are often financed by Uprising Ventures, John Mack, Vikram Pandit. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are William I Campbell, Volition Capital, Uprising Ventures.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, FinTech. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cortera, TruValue Labs, PeerIQ. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 11
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 2
- Follow on index
- 0.09
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (5)
- Analytics (5)
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Risk Management (4)
- FinTech (4) Show 16 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (8)
- United Kingdom (2)
- China (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 182M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.82
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acin | 28 Sep 2020 | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Information Services | Early Stage Venture | 12M | England, London, United Kingdom |
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