Palm Drive Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

107

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

88

Rounds per year

10.70

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

7

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechRetailInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareSaaS

Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Palm Drive Capital works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Pharmaceutical. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Jet.com, Rappi, WeLab.

The current fund was established by Hendrick Lee, Seamon Chan. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Palm Drive Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, InQlab, Stella Maris Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Soma Capital, FundersClub. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistFintechEcommerceHealthcareB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
107
Lead investments
6
Exits
7
Rounds per year
10.70
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • Financial Services (14)
  • FinTech (14)
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • Health Care (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (57)
  • Singapore (2)
  • Colombia (8)
  • The Netherlands (1)
  • United Arab Emirates (3)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
8
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
270M
Group Appearance index
0.72
Avg. company exit year
7
Strategy success index
1.00

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