Oyster Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
64
65M
49
8.00
1
0.23
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- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Oyster Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.
The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Oyster Ventures performs on 26 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Blockstack, Hedera Hashgraph, Basis. 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 a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Financial Services, Cryptocurrency. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.
This organization was formed by Sophie Liao. The overall number of key employees were 2.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Oyster Ventures, startups are often financed by Eric Di Benedetto, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Digital Currency Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Zillionize Angel, Visary Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Zillionize Angel, The Fund.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 250K — 5M
Preferences and restrictions
- Doesn’t invest in
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 64
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 8.00
- Follow on index
- 0.23
- Investments by industry
- Software (19)
- Blockchain (16)
- Financial Services (16)
- FinTech (15)
- Internet (13) Show 94 more
- Investments by region
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- United Arab Emirates (2)
- United States (51)
- Philippines (1)
- Canada (1)
- Spain (1) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 14M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.91
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allure Systems | 13 Mar 2019 | E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, 3D Technology, Augmented Reality, Fashion, Image Recognition | Seed | 150K | United States, New York, New York |
| Mucosis | 10 Sep 2007 | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | Early Stage Venture | 3M | Netherlands, Groningen |
| Ridepanda | 09 Nov 2023 | Retail | Seed | 7M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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