Initialized Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

546

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

304

Rounds per year

45.50

Lead investments

78

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

63

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Initialized Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this Initialized Capital works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Initialized Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, Harjeet Taggar. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Initialized Capital, startups are often financed by Alexis Ohanian, Paul Buchheit, Thrive Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Instacart, Flexport, Cruise Automation For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite 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 needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Human Resources, Analytics.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistClimate techConsumer/RetailBlockchain/Crypto/Web3B2B/Enterprise Show 5 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 115000000

Analytics

Total investments
546
Lead investments
78
Exits
63
Rounds per year
45.50
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Software (140)
  • E-Commerce (59)
  • SaaS (59)
  • Internet (56)
  • Enterprise Software (53)
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Investments by region
  • United States (502)
  • Canada (21)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Sweden (2)
  • The Netherlands (1)
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Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
21
Number of Decacorns
24
Number of Minotaurs
8

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
410M
Group Appearance index
0.66
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.18
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

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