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Lighter Capital

Founders Andy Sack Erik Benson Randall Lucas

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Total investments 326
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$309K
Portfolio companies 210
Rounds per year 25.08
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 38
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Lighter Capital is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2010. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Seattle. The venture was found in North America in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as CRM, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quip, BIGWORDS.com, Sellbrite. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The fund was created by Andy Sack, Erik Benson. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this Lighter Capital works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Lighter Capital, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, REach, Lightbank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Steven Tamm, Steve King, Shu Duan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salesforce Ventures, Harbert Growth Partners, Greycroft.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Crafter Software

Mobile
Open Source
SaaS
Software
05 Dec 2019 Virginia, United States

Lume Technologies Inc

Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Information Services
Information Technology
Private Cloud
$574K30 Sep 2016 Georgia, United States

TruClinic

Health Care
Information Technology
Telecommunications
$176K26 Jul 2016 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Qbox

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Search Engine
$2M26 Aug 2015 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Jive Communications

Telecommunications
Video
VoIP
$400K01 Jan 2011 Orem, Utah, United States

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Total investments 326
Average round size 309K
Rounds per year 25.08
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 38
Group Appearance index 0.03

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Crafter Software

Mobile
Open Source
SaaS
Software
05 Dec 2019 Virginia, United States

Lume Technologies Inc

Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Information Services
Information Technology
Private Cloud
$574K30 Sep 2016 Georgia, United States

TruClinic

Health Care
Information Technology
Telecommunications
$176K26 Jul 2016 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Qbox

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Search Engine
$2M26 Aug 2015 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Jive Communications

Telecommunications
Video
VoIP
$400K01 Jan 2011 Orem, Utah, United States
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