Marc Bell Ventures

Total investments

156

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

146

Rounds per year

5.57

Follow on index

0.02

Exits

38

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesMobileSaaSAppsEducationMarketplaceTravel

Summary

Marc Bell Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boca Raton. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Marc Bell Ventures, startups are often financed by Boston Syndicates (BOSS), SV Angel, Learn Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are QueensBridge Venture Partners, Maiden Lane Ventures, Kapor Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund).

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cabify, Branch, ClearTax. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Enterprise Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2014. When the investment is from Marc Bell Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Marc Bell Ventures performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Marc Bell. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
156
Lead investments
0
Exits
38
Rounds per year
5.57
Follow on index
0.02
Investments by industry
  • Software (38)
  • Mobile (27)
  • Internet (21)
  • Apps (18)
  • E-Commerce (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (140)
  • Spain (1)
  • China (1)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Chile (1)
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Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
87M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.02
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Crayon 30 Apr 2015 Business/Productivity Software, Media and Information Services (B2B), Social/Platform Software, Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Web Design Seed 1M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
KiwiCo 18 Feb 2015 E-Commerce, Education, Children, Subscription Service, Art, Recreation Early Stage Venture 3M United States, California, Mountain View
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