Homebrew

Summary

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

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Homebrew, startups are often financed by Slow Ventures, SV Angel, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RRE Ventures, Sherpa Capital, GV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RRE Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Slow Ventures.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, FinTech. 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 Plaid Technologies, Chime, Cruise Automation. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

When the investment is from Homebrew the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Homebrew works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The fund was created by Hunter Walk, Satya Patel. The overall number of key employees were 3.