Pantera

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

265

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

186

Rounds per year

12.62

Lead investments

59

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

12

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsFinanceBitcoinCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

Pantera Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2003. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Pantera Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Pantera Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Pantera Capital, startups are often financed by Firestartr, SV Angel, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Future Perfect Ventures, RRE Ventures, General Catalyst. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Blockchain Capital, IDG Capital, Digital Finance Group.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are FinTech, Cryptocurrency. The fund has no 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Circle Internet Financial, Kik Interactive, ThunderCore. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The fund was created by Dan Morehead. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
265
Lead investments
59
Exits
12
Rounds per year
12.62
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Blockchain (139)
  • Cryptocurrency (98)
  • Financial Services (81)
  • FinTech (64)
  • Software (47)
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Investments by region
  • United States (143)
  • China (8)
  • Mexico (2)
  • Switzerland (2)
  • Japan (3)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
11
Number of Decacorns
12
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
309M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
2.60
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Nexus Laboratories 10 Jun 2024 Early Stage Venture 25M United States, California, San Francisco
Reflexer Labs 11 Feb 2021 Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Seed 4M United States, California, San Francisco

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