Jaws Ventures

Total investments

56

Average round size

76M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

5.60

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceSoftwareFinTechConsumer GoodsMobileFood and BeverageBig DataTravelHospitality

Summary

In 2014 was created Jaws Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Greenwich.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Jaws Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Jaws Ventures works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Cloud Computing. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rubicon Global, Lytro, Lyric.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 participants. Despite the Jaws Ventures, startups are often financed by Thrive Capital, New Enterprise Associates, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Barry Sternlicht, New Enterprise Associates, Founders Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Henry Kravis, Accel, Thrive Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
56
Lead investments
0
Exits
5
Rounds per year
5.60
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Travel (12)
  • E-Commerce (12)
  • Consumer Goods (7)
  • Hospitality (7)
  • Real Estate (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (52)
  • India (2)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
7
Number of Decacorns
9
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
0.71
Strategy success index
0.80

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