Matchstick Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boulder, United States

Total investments

140

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

96

Rounds per year

15.56

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSupply Chain ManagementSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSAppsEnterprise Software

Summary

Matchstick Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boulder. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Supply Chain Management. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Branch, ScaleFactor, Spekit.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Matchstick Ventures, startups are often financed by Right Side Capital Management, Techstars Retail Accelerator, Techstars Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Daren Cotter, The Syndicate Fund, Techstars Retail Accelerator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars Ventures, Firebrand Ventures, Canaan Partners.

The current fund was established by Nathaniel Zola, Ryan Broshar. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Comparing to the other companies, this Matchstick Ventures performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Matchstick Ventures the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. 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.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Check size
500K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 850000000
Fund raised date
2020-02-25

Analytics

Total investments
140
Lead investments
9
Exits
8
Rounds per year
15.56
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Software (55)
  • SaaS (30)
  • E-Commerce (23)
  • Enterprise Software (21)
  • Apps (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (120)
  • Canada (12)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Intelligems 07 Feb 2023 E-Commerce Seed 4M
Liminal 05 Jun 2024 Seed 5M United States, Colorado, Denver

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