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Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 10
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Risk Management
  • FinTech
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cognitive Credit

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Software
Stock Exchanges
$8M22 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Diginex Solutions

Blockchain
$6M29 Jul 2021 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Sigma Ratings

Artificial Intelligence
Compliance
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$6M29 Oct 2020 New York, New York, United States

Acin

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$12M28 Sep 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

GeoQuant

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Intelligent Systems
Risk Management
Software
13 Nov 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Symbiont

Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
$20M23 Jan 2019 New York, New York, United States

Cortera

Analytics
B2B
Credit
Marketing
Payments
Risk Management
$10M20 Sep 2018 Boca Raton, Florida, United States

TruValue Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Language Learning
Machine Learning
$13M14 May 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

PeerIQ

Analytics
Big Data
Credit
Financial Services
FinTech
Risk Management
$12M02 Aug 2017 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 24M
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cognitive Credit

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Software
Stock Exchanges
$8M22 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Diginex Solutions

Blockchain
$6M29 Jul 2021 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Sigma Ratings

Artificial Intelligence
Compliance
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$6M29 Oct 2020 New York, New York, United States

Acin

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$12M28 Sep 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

GeoQuant

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Intelligent Systems
Risk Management
Software
13 Nov 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Symbiont

Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
$20M23 Jan 2019 New York, New York, United States

Cortera

Analytics
B2B
Credit
Marketing
Payments
Risk Management
$10M20 Sep 2018 Boca Raton, Florida, United States

TruValue Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Language Learning
Machine Learning
$13M14 May 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

PeerIQ

Analytics
Big Data
Credit
Financial Services
FinTech
Risk Management
$12M02 Aug 2017 New York, New York, United States
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