Owl Ventures
41
41M
15
5.86
24
0.27
1
- Areas of investment
Summary
Owl Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from Owl Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2020. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 46 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Owl Ventures, startups are often financed by Reach Capital, NewSchools Venture Fund, Thrive Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Reach Capital, Rethink Education, Kapor Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Reach Capital, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, WomensVCFund.
This organization was formed by Jed Smith, Tory Patterson. The overall number of key employees were 12.
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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DreamBox Learning, Degreed, Newsela. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Learning, Internet.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 41
- Lead investments
- 24
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 5.86
- Follow on index
- 0.27
- Investments by industry
- Education (14)
- EdTech (10)
- E-Learning (8)
- Software (6)
- Virtual Reality (4) Show 36 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (13)
- India (1)
- Denmark (3)
- Germany (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 4
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.10
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 5.00
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swing Education | 11 Jul 2018 | E-Learning, Recruiting, Education | Early Stage Venture | 15M | United States, California |
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