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playlabs

Founders Rizwan Virk

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$338K
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 1.75
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
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Areas of investment

  • Education
  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Banking
  • Finance
Summary

playlabs is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Cambridge. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The current fund was established by Rizwan Virk.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. When the investment is from playlabs the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the playlabs, startups are often financed by Rizwan Virk. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Seraph Group, Rizwan Virk, Rethink Education. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Seraph Group, XSeed Capital, Fulgur Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Esports One. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Augmented Reality, Machine Learning. 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BUTTON Wallet

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$380K07 Sep 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Realism

Education
$1M01 Jul 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BUTTON Wallet

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$20K11 Jun 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Realism

Education
10 Jun 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

EscapeLabs Inc

Computer
Software
$20K21 Jun 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 338K
Rounds per year 1.75
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.29
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BUTTON Wallet

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$380K07 Sep 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Realism

Education
$1M01 Jul 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BUTTON Wallet

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$20K11 Jun 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Realism

Education
10 Jun 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

EscapeLabs Inc

Computer
Software
$20K21 Jun 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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