Moonshots Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

152

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

68

Rounds per year

16.89

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.55

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareCyber Security

Summary

In 2014 was created Moonshots Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Craig Cummings, Kelly Perdew. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Fair, Olive, Prefix 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 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 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Identity Management, Enterprise Software.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Moonshots Capital, startups are often financed by Kelly Perdew, Social Leverage, Scout Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Capital Factory, Techstars, GGV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund, CoVenture, Social Leverage.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Moonshots Capital performs on 14 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from Moonshots Capital is 5-10 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistGovtech/LegaltechMilitaryFintechCybersecurity Show 2 more
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
750K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 36000000
Fund raised date
2021-07-22

Analytics

Total investments
152
Lead investments
8
Exits
9
Rounds per year
16.89
Follow on index
0.55
Investments by industry
  • Software (27)
  • Internet (25)
  • FinTech (17)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Mobile Apps (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (146)
  • Singapore (2)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
366M
Group Appearance index
0.49
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.65
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Autonomy 23 Sep 2021 FinTech, InsurTech Seed 33M United States, California, Santa Monica
Cartwheel 28 Apr 2022 Logistics, Last Mile Transportation, Transportation, Software, Food and Beverage, Enterprise Software, Delivery, Same Day Delivery, Navigation, Location Based Services Seed 3M United States, California, Los Angeles

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