Motley Fool Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Alexandria, United States

Total investments

49

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

32

Rounds per year

8.17

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveE-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyHuman ResourcesHealth CareSaaSLending

Summary

Motley Fool Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2018. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Alexandria. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Motley Fool Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Motley Fool Ventures, startups are often financed by Kapor Capital, The Motley Fool, SeedInvest. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kapor Capital, Joe Callinan, Walter Robb. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tom Golisano.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 Affectiva, MotoRefi, MyWallSt. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, SaaS.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailHealthcareFintechFoodtechFuture of Work Show 2 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Check size
1M — 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
6
Exits
1
Rounds per year
8.17
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (17)
  • Software (13)
  • FinTech (12)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Lending (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (46)
  • Nigeria (1)
  • Ireland (2)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
91M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.17
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Karlsgate 26 Mar 2022 Software, Information Technology, Data Integration Seed 4M United States, New Jersey, Budd Lake
NewRetirement 27 Mar 2024 Financial Services, FinTech, InsurTech, Retirement Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California

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