Light Street Capital
23
216M
20
1.77
2
0.09
6
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Light Street Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
The current fund was established by Glen Kacher. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.
The top activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Light Street Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Harry's, ezCater. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Transportation, Fashion.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Light Street Capital, startups are often financed by Tiger Global Management, Social Starts, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are blisce/, Wellington Management, Tiger Global Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by blisce/, Temasek Holdings, Tata Opportunities Fund (TOF).
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 23
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 1.77
- Follow on index
- 0.09
- Investments by industry
- Software (7)
- E-Commerce (5)
- SaaS (5)
- Restaurants (4)
- Mobile (4) Show 57 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (16)
- Israel (1)
- India (1)
- Japan (2)
- Brazil (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
- Number of Unicorns
- 7
- Number of Decacorns
- 13
- Number of Minotaurs
- 6
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 8B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.87
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.60
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orosy | 20 Jul 2021 | Wholesale, E-Commerce, Retail, Retail Technology | Early Stage Venture | 1M | Chiyoda, Japan |
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