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Lightyear Capital

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 2
Rounds per year 2.00
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Key employees 11
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Retail
  • Marketing
  • Gaming
  • Information Services
Summary

In 2000 was created Lightyear Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The overall number of key employees were 11.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Lightyear Capital, startups are often financed by Virgo Investment Group, SunAmerica Ventures, Oxygen Capital Partners, LLC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are PI Financial, Oak HC/FT, J & W Seligman. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rustic Canyon Partners.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Higher One, Baseline StudioSystems Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy, Education. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. This Lightyear Capital works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lineintent

Internet
$1M15 Sep 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Youdong.com

Gaming
Information Services
Internet
Marketing
Mobile
Retail
$1M06 Jun 2016 Siming, China

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Total investments 8
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 2.00
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lineintent

Internet
$1M15 Sep 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Youdong.com

Gaming
Information Services
Internet
Marketing
Mobile
Retail
$1M06 Jun 2016 Siming, China
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