Pathbreaker Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

53

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

5.89

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareRestaurantsRoboticsSecurityData StorageIndustrial Automation

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
RoboticsAI/Big DataHardware
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States, California, Silicon Valley
Check size
100K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund raised date
2019-12-17

Analytics

Total investments
53
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
5.89
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (24)
  • Artificial Intelligence (15)
  • Machine Learning (12)
  • Robotics (12)
  • Information Technology (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (51)
Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
37M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
2
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Framework 23 Apr 2024 Consumer Electronics Early Stage Venture 17M United States, California, Burlingame
TENYX 10 May 2022 Artificial Intelligence Seed 15M

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