PayPal Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

San Jose, United States

Total investments

122

Average round size

57M

Portfolio companies

77

Rounds per year

5.55

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

8

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsFinanceCyber SecurityBankingBlockchain

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Jose. The venture was found in North America in United States. PayPal Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

The real fund results show that this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from PayPal Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this PayPal Ventures performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the PayPal Ventures, startups are often financed by Data Collective DCVC, btov Partners, Ribbit Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goodwater Capital, Enterprise Ireland, Bessemer Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goodwater Capital, Ribbit Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cyber Security, SaaS. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Raisin, PPRO Group, Monese For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechEcommerceCloud/InfrastructureBlockchain/Crypto/Web3
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
122
Lead investments
24
Exits
8
Rounds per year
5.55
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (63)
  • Financial Services (59)
  • Software (23)
  • Finance (22)
  • E-Commerce (16)
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Investments by region
  • United States (70)
  • United Kingdom (12)
  • United Arab Emirates (2)
  • Brazil (1)
  • India (5)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
17
Number of Decacorns
17
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
573M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.78
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Gynger.io 20 Jun 2024 Financial Services, Finance, Productivity Tools, Point of Sale, Sales Automation Early Stage Venture 20M United States, New York, New York
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