Hillsven Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

52

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

2.89

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AccountingSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSAppsEnterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools

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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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Check size
500K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
52
Lead investments
4
Exits
8
Rounds per year
2.89
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Software (19)
  • Information Technology (12)
  • Financial Services (11)
  • FinTech (10)
  • Apps (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (49)
  • Israel (3)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
87M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
1.69
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Expensify 27 Jul 2015 Accounting, Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Mobile, Apps, Small and Medium Businesses, Credit Cards, Freemium Late Stage Venture 17M United States, California, San Francisco
Formant 11 Oct 2023 Information Technology, Information Services, Robotics Early Stage Venture 21M United States, California, San Francisco

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