NewSchools Venture Fund
116
25M
102
4.64
22
0.12
23
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
NewSchools Venture Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Oakland. The company was established in North America in United States.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the NewSchools Venture Fund, startups are often financed by Imagine K12, Rick Burnes, Kapor Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Eileen Rudden, Rick Burnes, Josh Tolkoff. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Learn Capital, Rethink Education, Kapor Capital.
Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this NewSchools Venture Fund performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from NewSchools Venture Fund is 1-5 millions dollars.
The fund was created by John Doerr, Kim Smith. Besides them, we counted 22 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight EdCast, ClassDojo, Newsela. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Skill Assessment. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 116
- Lead investments
- 22
- Exits
- 23
- Rounds per year
- 4.64
- Follow on index
- 0.12
- Investments by industry
- Education (95)
- E-Learning (31)
- EdTech (30)
- Software (23)
- Non Profit (14) Show 86 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (105)
- Canada (3)
- Israel (1)
- Denmark (1)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 33M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.43
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.56
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goalbook | 19 Oct 2012 | EdTech, Education | Seed | 950K | United States, California |
| Tynker | 11 Apr 2013 | Education, Video Games, Edutainment | Seed | 3M | United States, California, Mountain View |
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