Makers Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

109

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

80

Rounds per year

15.57

Lead investments

34

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyGamingPC GameseSportsVirtual RealityOnline GamesiOSVideo GamesCasual Games

Summary

In 2017 was created Makers Fund, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in Singapore. The main department of described VC is located in the Singapore.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FRVR, Medal, Unit 2 Games. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, iOS.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 53 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Comparing to the other companies, this Makers Fund performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Makers Fund, startups are often financed by LVP, OCA Ventures, March Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novator, LVP, Firstminute Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Horizons Ventures, Novator, Northzone.

The current fund was established by Jay Chi. The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Gaming/EsportsMedia/ContentConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 500000000
Fund raised date
2022-03-10

Analytics

Total investments
109
Lead investments
34
Exits
8
Rounds per year
15.57
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Gaming (59)
  • Video Games (37)
  • Online Games (26)
  • Software (25)
  • Casual Games (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (47)
  • Turkey (6)
  • United Kingdom (10)
  • India (5)
  • Malta (2)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
49M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.46
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Gaggle Studios 30 Apr 2021 Gaming, PC Games, Media and Entertainment Seed 2M Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Hadi 13 Apr 2023 Mobile Apps, Video Games Seed 5M Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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