ParaFi Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Greenwich, United States

Total investments

122

Average round size

59M

Portfolio companies

97

Rounds per year

20.33

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

1

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileFinanceCryptocurrencyBlockchainFinancial ExchangesTrading Platform

Summary

In 2018 was created Parafi Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Personal Finance. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Staked us, Ampleforth, Provenance Blockchain The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. Despite the Parafi Capital, startups are often financed by Pantera Capital, True Ventures, RRE Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pantera Capital, Blocktree Capital, Winklevoss capital.

The current fund was established by Benjamin Forman. The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 30000000
Fund raised date
2021-12-02

Analytics

Total investments
122
Lead investments
9
Exits
1
Rounds per year
20.33
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Blockchain (45)
  • Cryptocurrency (41)
  • Financial Services (28)
  • FinTech (22)
  • Software (21)
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Investments by region
  • United States (51)
  • Switzerland (5)
  • China (2)
  • Gibraltar (3)
  • Australia (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
10
Number of Decacorns
10
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
3
Avg. valuation at time of investment
353M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Manta Network 19 Oct 2021 Seed 5M
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