Hone Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

31

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

3.88

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

9

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
TransportationSoftwareFinTechAnalyticsMobileMachine LearningSaaSAppsMarketplaceAutonomous Vehicles

Summary

Hone Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. 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 8-9 partakers. Despite the Hone Capital, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Atlas Venture. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CSC Upshot, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Uncork Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Guardant Health, Carbon Black, Cruise Automation. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Autonomous Vehicles.

This organization was formed by Tom Cole, Veronica Wu. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Hone Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Hone Capital performs on 5 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries BSeries C Show 1 more
Geo focus
United States, California, Silicon Valley

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
2
Exits
9
Rounds per year
3.88
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Transportation (5)
  • FinTech (5)
  • Mobile (4)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (29)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
235M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.18
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Roofstock 03 Mar 2016 Real Estate, FinTech, Marketplace, Rental Property Early Stage Venture 7M United States, California, Oakland
WigWag 25 Feb 2016 Internet of Things, Smart Building, Open Source Seed 3M United States, Texas, Austin
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