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Hillsven Capital

Founders Bobby Lent Boris Putanec

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Total investments 52
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 2.89
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Apps
Summary

Hillsven Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2005. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Hillsven Capital, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Travis Kalanick, Tank Hill Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Greycroft, Travis Kalanick, Cue Ball. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, UpWest Labs, Y Combinator.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Hillsven Capital works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Hillsven Capital the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Livefyre, HoneyBook, Peer5 Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Messaging, Fashion.

The fund was created by Bobby Lent, Boris Putanec. The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$21M11 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Tesorio

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketing Automation
Software
$17M05 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Stilt

Consumer Finance
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Lending
Other Financial Services
$14M10 Mar 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$18M05 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Zipline

Business Development
Communications Infrastructure
Information Technology
Retail
Retail Technology
SaaS
Software
$30M02 Mar 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

PreDxion Bio

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$6M15 Sep 2020 South San Francisco, California, United States

Codefresh

Apps
Developer Tools
Software
Web Development
$27M29 Jun 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

Stilt

Consumer Finance
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Lending
Other Financial Services
$7M07 May 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Jolt

Business Intelligence
EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Professional Networking
$14M13 Jan 2020 Tel Aviv District
News
Stampli Raises $50M in Series C Funding

– Stampli, a Mountain View, Calif.-based AI-driven AP Automation company which enables CFOs and controllers to close the disconnect between accounts payables and the broader organization, raised $50m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from SignalFire and Nextworld Capital, which joined UpWest, Hillsven, Bloomberg and Naver Corp.
– As part of this funding round, Praveen Akkiraju, Managing Director at Insight Partners, will join the Stampli Board of Directors.

Retail Zipline raises $30M as it helps retailers adapt to the pandemic

– Retail Zipline, a platform for communicating with retail associates, raised $30m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by real estate-focused firm Fifth Wall, with partner Dan Wenhold joining the board of directors.
Emergence Capital, Ridge Ventures, Hillsven Capital, Veeva co-founder Matt Wallach and the Fisher Family Fund also participated.

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Total investments 52
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 2.89
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$21M11 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Tesorio

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketing Automation
Software
$17M05 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Stilt

Consumer Finance
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Lending
Other Financial Services
$14M10 Mar 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$18M05 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Zipline

Business Development
Communications Infrastructure
Information Technology
Retail
Retail Technology
SaaS
Software
$30M02 Mar 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

PreDxion Bio

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$6M15 Sep 2020 South San Francisco, California, United States

Codefresh

Apps
Developer Tools
Software
Web Development
$27M29 Jun 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

Stilt

Consumer Finance
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Lending
Other Financial Services
$7M07 May 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Jolt

Business Intelligence
EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Professional Networking
$14M13 Jan 2020 Tel Aviv District
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