LaunchCapital

Summary

LaunchCapital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New Haven.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the LaunchCapital, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Will Herman, MassChallenge. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CVP, Wavemaker Partners, Silicon Badia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CVP, Grace Beauty Capital, 500 Startups.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this LaunchCapital works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from LaunchCapital is 5-10 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Elon Boms. The overall number of key employees were 6.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Formlabs, Helix, Crew 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. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Information Technology.