Hinge Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

67

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

57

Rounds per year

4.47

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

21

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailMobileFinanceSaaSAppsMobile AppsEnterprise Software

Summary

Hinge Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The main department of described VC is located in the San Diego. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Finance. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bird Rides, Dollar Shave Club, Classy. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The important activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Hinge Capital works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Hinge Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Hinge Capital, startups are often financed by Morado Ventures, Y Combinator, Paige Craig. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Social Leverage, GV, Ludlow Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 500 Startups, Menlo Ventures, Knight Enterprise Fund.

This organization was formed by Brandon Zeuner, Ryan Swagar. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistHealthcareWellness & FitnessEdtechFintech Show 5 more
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
Geo focus
United States

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 19100000
Fund raised date
2021-08-09

Analytics

Total investments
67
Lead investments
3
Exits
21
Rounds per year
4.47
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (17)
  • Mobile (17)
  • Apps (13)
  • Enterprise Software (10)
  • Internet (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (65)
  • Israel (1)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2011
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
254M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.20
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
GoSpotCheck 06 May 2014 Software, Retail, Mobile, Finance, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Market Research, Brand Marketing Seed 1M United States, Colorado, Denver
ToutApp 15 May 2011 Internet, Software, Enterprise Software, Sales Automation, Email Seed 350K United States, California, San Francisco

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