Highway1

Summary

Highway1 appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2015. This Highway1 works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Highway1 is 1-5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Robotics, E-Commerce. The fund has no 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cue, Drop, Osmo Systems.

The current fund was established by Brady Forrest, Liam Casey.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Highway1, startups are often financed by Wayra, Techstars, Plug and Play. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Leo Chan, Kima Ventures, FuturePlay. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, LAUNCH, Uncork Capital.