Lead Edge Capital
Venture Capital
Active
New York, United States
111
65M
78
7.40
17
0.30
20
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Lead Edge Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Lead Edge Capital, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Benchmark, Harrison Metal. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FLOODGATE, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Accel.
For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alibaba, Uber, Delivery Hero. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.
The fund was created by Mitchell Green, Scott Booth. The overall number of key employees were 6.
The high activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Lead Edge Capital works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from Lead Edge Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 10M — 200M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 1950000000
- Fund raised date
- 2022-04-06
Analytics
- Total investments
- 111
- Lead investments
- 17
- Exits
- 20
- Rounds per year
- 7.40
- Follow on index
- 0.30
- Investments by industry
- Software (58)
- SaaS (32)
- Enterprise Software (24)
- Information Technology (23)
- Internet (23) Show 154 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (92)
- Germany (1)
- France (4)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Ireland (2) Show 5 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 21
- Number of Decacorns
- 23
- Number of Minotaurs
- 6
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 2B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.86
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 3.23
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monetate | 05 Dec 2013 | Internet, Enterprise Software, Test and Measurement | Late Stage Venture | 8M | United States, Pennsylvania |
| Nucleus Security | 12 Feb 2024 | Software, Analytics, Information Technology, SaaS, Cyber Security, Risk Management | Early Stage Venture | 13M | United States, Florida, Sarasota |
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