Pioneer Fund
Venture Capital
Active
San Francsico, United States
273
3M
212
34.12
3
0.21
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Pioneer Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.
The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. When the investment is from Pioneer Fund the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Pioneer Fund performs on 27 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Education. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Grin Scooters, Allure Systems, NexGenT. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
The current fund was established by Jason Gray. The overall number of key employees were 14.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Pioneer Fund, startups are often financed by Soma Capital, 500 Startups, Wei Guo. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VentureSouq, Locus Ventures, Eric Kwan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Locus Ventures.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 273
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 34.12
- Follow on index
- 0.21
- Investments by industry
- Software (68)
- Health Care (38)
- E-Commerce (29)
- Financial Services (28)
- Information Technology (28) Show 236 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (164)
- Mexico (7)
- Singapore (5)
- United Kingdom (11)
- India (26) Show 14 more
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 4
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 15M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.87
- Avg. company exit year
- 2
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axis | 22 Mar 2022 | Government, Information Technology, Information Services | Seed | United States, New York, New York | |
| Lamin Labs | 22 Aug 2022 | Biotechnology, Software Engineering, Data Integration | Seed | Bayern, Munich, Germany |
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