Learn Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Mateo, United States

Total investments

165

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

110

Rounds per year

10.31

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

21

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyE-LearningHuman ResourcesSaaSEdTechHigher EducationTrainingEducation

Summary

Learn Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The main department of described VC is located in the San Mateo. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. When the investment is from Learn Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Learn Capital performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Learn Capital, startups are often financed by NewSchools Venture Fund, 500 Startups, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rethink Education, Omidyar Network, Kapor Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rethink Education, GSV AcceleraTE, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Human Resources, EdTech. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Vipkid, Coursera, Udemy Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EdtechFintechCommunity/Social networkHealthcareGaming/Esports
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund raised date
2021-07-07

Analytics

Total investments
165
Lead investments
18
Exits
21
Rounds per year
10.31
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Education (122)
  • EdTech (73)
  • E-Learning (49)
  • Software (33)
  • Internet (22)
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Investments by region
  • United States (142)
  • China (2)
  • India (3)
  • Poland (2)
  • Japan (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
7
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
171M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
3.97
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
28 by Evie 23 Aug 2022 Fitness, Health Care, Wellness, Women's Seed 3M United States, Florida, Miami
Modal.io 02 Apr 2024 Early Stage Venture 25M United States, California, San Francisco

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