Luminari Capital

Total investments

27

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

2.70

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileDeveloper PlatformSportsVideoDigital EntertainmentDigital MediaVideo StreamingJournalism

Summary

In 2013 was created Luminari Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

This organization was formed by Daniel Leff. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Luminari Capital, startups are often financed by Menlo Ventures, Sky, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sky, BDMI, Third Wave Digital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sky, Scripps Networks, News Corp..

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Luminari Capital performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Luminari Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2014.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Video Streaming. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Roku, Inc., fuboTV, Thirty Labs. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
0
Exits
6
Rounds per year
2.70
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Video (11)
  • Sports (7)
  • Digital Entertainment (5)
  • Developer Platform (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • Canada (3)
Peak activity year
2015

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
299M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
5.22
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
IntelinAir 14 Nov 2017 Analytics, Enterprise Software, Agriculture Seed 0 United States, California, San Jose
Mino Games 01 Dec 2014 Mobile, Gaming, Developer Platform, Online Games, Video Games Seed 1M Quebec, Montreal, Canada
The Athletic 05 Mar 2018 Sports, News, Journalism Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, San Francisco

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