Locus Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Redwood City, United States

Total investments

34

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

4.25

Follow on index

0.09

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningAppsMobile AppsE-Commerce Platforms

Summary

Locus Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Locus Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

The current fund was established by Eric Kwan, Perry Tam, Tommy Tsai, William Chan. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Locus Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Eric Kwan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pioneer Fund, Mohamed Elkasstawi, ZMT Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, CRV, Venture Highway.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Allure Systems, Proper, NEX Team (HomeCourt). The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
0
Rounds per year
4.25
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
  • Software (7)
  • FinTech (7)
  • Financial Services (7)
  • E-Commerce Platforms (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (18)
  • India (6)
  • Indonesia (1)
  • Singapore (4)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
211M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AppNexus 10 Nov 2009 Internet, Software, SaaS, Advertising, Ad Network Early Stage Venture 5M United States, New York
CareerTu 16 Mar 2019 Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Marketing, Product Design, E-Commerce Platforms Seed 150K United States, New York, New York
Kisan Network 30 Jan 2020 Mobile, AgTech, Agriculture Seed 3M Haryana, Gurugram, India
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