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Pioneer Fund

Founders Jason Gray

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Total investments 224
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 178
Rounds per year 28.00
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 2
Key employees 14
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flower

Analytics
E-Learning
Open Source
$20M15 Feb 2024 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

AiSDR

Email Marketing
Management Consulting
Marketing
Sales
Scheduling
Software
$3M28 Nov 2023 Madison, Alabama, United States

Defog

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$2M22 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Suger

B2B
SaaS
Software
$2M16 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

EthXY

Gaming
Online Games
$1M15 Nov 2023 -

Ozone

Cloud Computing
Graphic Design
Software
$7M08 Nov 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Anchor

Financial Services
$2M04 Sep 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Pirros

Architecture
Civil Engineering
Construction
Real Estate
$2M31 Aug 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Studdy

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
SaaS
$2M07 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Pry Financials raises $4.2M to make startup accounting more approachable

– Pry Financials, a startup that wants to make startup finances approachable for its entire team, not just the people in charge of its accounting spreadsheets, raised $4.2m funding.
– The round was led by Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, NOMO VC, Liquid2 and Hyphen Capital.
– The company was founded by Alex Sailer, Tiffany Wong, Hayden Jensen and Andy Su.
– It was launched in March and has more than 200 customers.

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Total investments 224
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 28.00
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flower

Analytics
E-Learning
Open Source
$20M15 Feb 2024 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

AiSDR

Email Marketing
Management Consulting
Marketing
Sales
Scheduling
Software
$3M28 Nov 2023 Madison, Alabama, United States

Defog

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$2M22 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Suger

B2B
SaaS
Software
$2M16 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

EthXY

Gaming
Online Games
$1M15 Nov 2023 -

Ozone

Cloud Computing
Graphic Design
Software
$7M08 Nov 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Anchor

Financial Services
$2M04 Sep 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Pirros

Architecture
Civil Engineering
Construction
Real Estate
$2M31 Aug 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Studdy

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
SaaS
$2M07 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
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