MHS Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

68

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

39

Rounds per year

4.00

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

11

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileSaaSProductivity ToolsEnterprise SoftwareEducationAdvertising

Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the MHS Capital, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Tom Williams, Mayfield Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mayfield Fund, ff Venture Capital, Trinity Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mayfield Fund, ff Venture Capital, Trinity Ventures.

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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketing, Advertising. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Thumbtack, Outreach, Udemy.

When the investment is from MHS Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This MHS Capital works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The fund was created by Mark Sugarman. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistConsumer/RetailB2B/EnterpriseHealthcareEdtech Show 1 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries CSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
1M — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
68
Lead investments
10
Exits
11
Rounds per year
4.00
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (19)
  • Internet (17)
  • Software (15)
  • Enterprise Software (12)
  • Mobile (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (59)
  • Canada (3)
  • Finland (2)
  • Kenya (1)
  • Brazil (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
377M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
9.65
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Udemy 31 Aug 2010 E-Learning, EdTech, Training, Education Seed 1M United States, California, San Francisco
Xano 12 Oct 2023 Software, Mobile Apps, Cloud Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Web Apps, Developer APIs Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California, Woodland Hills

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