Maveron

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

299

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

192

Rounds per year

11.50

Lead investments

52

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

49

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailMobileHealth CareEducationMarketplaceFashion

Summary

In 1998 was created Maveron, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Maveron performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Maveron the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The real fund results show that this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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 fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Retail. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Groupon, zulily, Zume Pizza Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Dan Levitan, Howard Schultz. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Maveron, startups are often financed by Oak Investment Partners, Slow Ventures, Madrona Venture Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trilogy Equity Partners, Greycroft, Founders' Co-op. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Greycroft.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailFintechHealthcareEcommerceEdtech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States
Check size
100K — 8M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 225000000
Fund raised date
2022-05-24

Analytics

Total investments
299
Lead investments
52
Exits
49
Rounds per year
11.50
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (67)
  • Internet (44)
  • Health Care (42)
  • Financial Services (29)
  • Retail (26)
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Investments by region
  • United States (287)
  • Canada (2)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
113M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.11
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Grayce 12 Jun 2024 Health Care, Wellness, mHealth, Employee Benefits, Elder Care Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California, San Francisco
JetClosing 07 Jul 2017 Real Estate, Smart Home, Consumer Lending Seed 2M United States, Washington, Seattle
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