Manzanita Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

10

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.45

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
PublishingBeautyCosmeticsRetailOnline PortalsWellnessFashionWomen'sCrowdfundingSex Tech

Summary

In 2001 was created Manzanita Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Manzanita Capital, startups are often financed by Switch Ventures, Struck Capital, SoGal Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Thrive Capital, Lerer Hippeau, Forerunner Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), SoGal Ventures.

The fund was created by William Fisher. The overall number of key employees were 4.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Women's, Retail. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Glossier, Unbound. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Wellness & FitnessGoods
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBahrainBelgium Show 59 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
10
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.45
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Beauty (5)
  • Cosmetics (4)
  • Wellness (3)
  • Fashion (2)
  • Retail (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • France (1)
  • China (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
293M
Group Appearance index
0.70
Avg. company exit year
27
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SuperOrdinary 05 Oct 2023 Beauty, Cosmetics, Wellness Early Stage Venture 58M United States, California, Los Angeles

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