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Oyster Ventures

Founders Kenneth Ballenegger Sophie Liao

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Total investments 64
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$65M
Portfolio companies 49
Rounds per year 8.00
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Blockchain
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Internet
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ridepanda

Retail
$7M09 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Conductive.ai

Information Technology
Software
02 Aug 2023 Central, Hong Kong, China

Rithmm

Analytics
Information Technology
Predictive Analytics
Sports
$2M05 Jun 2023 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States

Advance Tech Lending

Employee Benefits
Financial Services
FinTech
$16M29 Mar 2023 Taguig, Rizal, Philippines

RentSmallSmall

Real Estate
Rental Property
$2M31 Oct 2022 Hualaihué, Chile

Revere VC

Venture Capital
$4M31 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Ridepanda

Retail
$3M30 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

WeWeb

Internet
SaaS
Software
$2M22 Mar 2021 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Queue

B2B
Collaboration
Consumer
Internet
Software
$1M16 Sep 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 64
Average round size 65M
Rounds per year 8.00
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ridepanda

Retail
$7M09 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Conductive.ai

Information Technology
Software
02 Aug 2023 Central, Hong Kong, China

Rithmm

Analytics
Information Technology
Predictive Analytics
Sports
$2M05 Jun 2023 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States

Advance Tech Lending

Employee Benefits
Financial Services
FinTech
$16M29 Mar 2023 Taguig, Rizal, Philippines

RentSmallSmall

Real Estate
Rental Property
$2M31 Oct 2022 Hualaihué, Chile

Revere VC

Venture Capital
$4M31 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Ridepanda

Retail
$3M30 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

WeWeb

Internet
SaaS
Software
$2M22 Mar 2021 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Queue

B2B
Collaboration
Consumer
Internet
Software
$1M16 Sep 2020 San Francisco, California, United States
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