Obvious Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

United States, San Francisco

Total investments

170

Average round size

39M

Portfolio companies

99

Rounds per year

17.00

Lead investments

27

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

7

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareMedicalConstruction

Summary

Obvious Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Obvious Ventures, startups are often financed by Data Collective DCVC, SV Angel, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lux Capital, Data Collective DCVC, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Catalyst, Data Collective DCVC, Kleiner Perkins.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Travel. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Magic Leap, Devoted Health, Beyond Meat

This organization was formed by Ev Williams, James Joaquin, Vishal Vasishth. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The typical startup value when the investment from Obvious Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Obvious Ventures works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareClimate techFoodtechMobilityEnergy Show 3 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
10M — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 461000000
Fund raised date
2022-06-14

Analytics

Total investments
170
Lead investments
27
Exits
7
Rounds per year
17.00
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (37)
  • Software (35)
  • Artificial Intelligence (23)
  • Machine Learning (20)
  • Biotechnology (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (142)
  • Germany (1)
  • Canada (5)
  • Sweden (5)
  • United Kingdom (4)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
9
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
402M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
3.44
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
GenHealth.ai 18 Jul 2023 Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Developer APIs Seed 13M
Taika 26 Aug 2021 Food and Beverage Seed 2M United States, California, Irvine

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