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Pathbreaker Ventures

Founders Ryan Gembala

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Total investments 54
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 6.00
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Robotics
  • Information Technology
Summary

Pathbreaker Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Pathbreaker Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, True Ventures, Next Coast Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Boom Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Boom Capital.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Pathbreaker Ventures performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Pathbreaker Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The fund was created by Ryan Gembala. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Apprente, Diligent Robotics, Diligent Robotics Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Additive Space Technologies

3D Printing
3D Technology
Aerospace
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
$5M17 Jul 2024 Denver, Colorado, United States

Framework

Consumer Electronics
$17M23 Apr 2024 Burlingame, California, United States

Delivery Collective

$3M02 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

PaintJet

Software
$10M20 Dec 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Presso

Hospitality
$8M19 Jan 2023 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

BurnBot

Environmental Engineering
Service Industry
$5M12 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

PaintJet

Software
$3M27 Oct 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

GrayMatter Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
$20M16 Aug 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Tingono

Software
$6M21 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before

– Reliable Robotics, a startup that is developing autonomous aircraft systems, raised $130m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Coatue Management and joined by Lightspeed Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures and Pathbreaker Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funds to scale the team and support its first aircraft certification program.

SafelyYou Closes $19.5M Series A Funding Round

– SafelyYou from San Francisco provides artificial intelligence-enabled fall detection and prevention for dementia care.
– Series A $19.5m round was led by Eclipse Ventures with participation from Founders Fund, as well as existing investors DCVC, Foundation Capital, TSQ Advisors, Pathbreaker Ventures, The House Fund, Swift Ventures, Pacific Health Ventures, Anorak Ventures, and 7Percent Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to scale up the business.

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Total investments 54
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 6.00
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Additive Space Technologies

3D Printing
3D Technology
Aerospace
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
$5M17 Jul 2024 Denver, Colorado, United States

Framework

Consumer Electronics
$17M23 Apr 2024 Burlingame, California, United States

Delivery Collective

$3M02 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

PaintJet

Software
$10M20 Dec 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Presso

Hospitality
$8M19 Jan 2023 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

BurnBot

Environmental Engineering
Service Industry
$5M12 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

PaintJet

Software
$3M27 Oct 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

GrayMatter Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
$20M16 Aug 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Tingono

Software
$6M21 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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