Method Capital

Chicago, United States
Active
Total investments

19

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

2.38

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataData Visualization

Summary

Method Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This Method Capital works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Method Capital is 100-500 millions dollars.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Apps, Software. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Semantify, NexLP, OfficeLuv. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Method Capital, startups are often financed by SixThirty, Lakewest Venture Partners, General Catalyst. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Jai Shekhawat, CMFG Ventures, Translink Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CMFG Ventures, Translink Capital, Thomvest Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
United States
Check size
1M — 10M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
4
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.38
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (5)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
  • Analytics (5)
  • Software (4)
  • Big Data (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
23M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.90

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
07 Jul 2016Information Technology, SaaS, GovTechEarly Stage Venture9MUnited States, Illinois, Chicago
Nobesity01 Mar 2016Information Technology, Health Care, MedicalSeed250KHefa, Hefa, Israel
Spekit01 Oct 2019Software, B2B, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Corporate Training, Training, Big Data, Knowledge Management, CRMSeed2MUnited States, Colorado, Denver
SpiderOak12 Jan 2023Enterprise Software, Cyber Security, Blockchain, Open SourceLate Stage Venture16MUnited States, Missouri, Kansas City

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