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Light Street Capital

Founders Glen Kacher

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$216M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 1.77
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 6
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
  • Restaurants
  • Mobile
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).

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Orosy

E-Commerce
Retail
Retail Technology
Wholesale
$1M20 Jul 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Solv

Apps
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Internet
Mobile Apps
Personal Health
$27M12 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Boxed

Apps
E-Commerce
Grocery
Mobile
Shopping
Wholesale
$100M20 Jan 2016 New York, New York, United States

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
Men's
$97M01 Jun 2015 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 23
Average round size 216M
Rounds per year 1.77
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Orosy

E-Commerce
Retail
Retail Technology
Wholesale
$1M20 Jul 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Solv

Apps
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Internet
Mobile Apps
Personal Health
$27M12 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Boxed

Apps
E-Commerce
Grocery
Mobile
Shopping
Wholesale
$100M20 Jan 2016 New York, New York, United States

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
Men's
$97M01 Jun 2015 New York, New York, United States
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