Pillar

Total investments

128

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

67

Rounds per year

16.00

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

Pillar Companies appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Food and Beverage, CRM. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline PathAI, Algorand, Soofa

The fund was created by Jamie Goldstein, Russ Wilcox, Sarah Hodges.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Pillar Companies, startups are often financed by LAUNCH, Hyperplane Venture Capital, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Rising Tide, Refactor Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Catalyst, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, VLane Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
128
Lead investments
7
Exits
6
Rounds per year
16.00
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (23)
  • Software (23)
  • Health Care (21)
  • Financial Services (18)
  • Internet (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (117)
  • Germany (1)
  • Israel (1)
  • Spain (3)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
160M
Group Appearance index
0.69
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
1.22
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Adaptilens 29 Apr 2024 Early Stage Venture 17M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Entrée 15 Mar 2023 Food and Beverage, Apps, Restaurants Seed 2M

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