Jackson Square Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

90

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

48

Rounds per year

6.92

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

11

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Jackson Square Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Jackson Square Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Jackson Square Ventures works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by Bob Spinner, Greg Gretsch, Josh Breinlinger, Pete Solvik. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DocuSign, Upwork, OfferUp. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Jackson Square Ventures, startups are often financed by Founder Collective, Y Combinator, Accel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Founder Collective, Y Combinator, Real Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Avalon Ventures, Austin Ventures, Correlation Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series ASeed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 193000000
Fund raised date
2019-10-14

Analytics

Total investments
90
Lead investments
19
Exits
11
Rounds per year
6.92
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Internet (20)
  • Enterprise Software (19)
  • E-Commerce (15)
  • Analytics (15)
  • Health Care (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (85)
  • Chile (2)
  • Canada (3)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
277M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
5.31
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
OneNotary 26 Mar 2024 Real Estate, Document Management, Legal, Legal Tech, E-Signature, Document Preparation Early Stage Venture 5M United States, California, San Francisco
Summit System 31 Mar 2022 Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, San Francisco

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