Heavybit

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

99

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

9.00

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

17

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataCyber SecuritySecurityDeveloper ToolsDeveloper APIs

Summary

Heavybit is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2013. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco.

This organization was formed by James Lindenbaum, Tom Drummond.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CircleCI, Sanity, Moesif Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Security, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Heavybit, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, Boldstart Ventures, Harrison Metal. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Boldstart Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Threshold. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Threshold, Vertex Ventures US, Vertex Ventures.

The average startup value when the investment from Heavybit is 50-100 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Developer ToolsCloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 80000000
Fund raised date
2022-09-06

Analytics

Total investments
99
Lead investments
3
Exits
17
Rounds per year
9.00
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (63)
  • SaaS (44)
  • Developer Tools (37)
  • Information Technology (23)
  • Enterprise Software (22)
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Investments by region
  • United States (84)
  • Canada (4)
  • Israel (3)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Sweden (1)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
10
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.53
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.50
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jeli.io 28 Sep 2022 Software, Information Technology, SaaS Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California, San Francisco
Userfront 23 May 2024 Seed 5M United States, California, San Jose

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