Plus Eight Equity Fund LP

Total investments

15

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

1.88

Follow on index

0.27

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Machine LearningSoftware EngineeringBig DataMusicHardwareConsumer ElectronicsInternet of ThingsMedia and EntertainmentCommunication HardwareLocation Based Services

Summary

Plus Eight Equity Fund LP appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Plus Eight Equity Fund LP, startups are often financed by YUL Ventures, Real Ventures, Anges Quebec. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YUL Ventures, Warner Music Group, Sony Innovation Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Flybridge Capital Partners, Union Square Ventures, True Ventures.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LANDR, Splice. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Media and Entertainment.

The fund was created by John Acquaviva, Richie Hawtin. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Plus Eight Equity Fund LP is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
0
Rounds per year
1.88
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Music (8)
  • Software Engineering (4)
  • Big Data (2)
  • Machine Learning (2)
  • Internet of Things (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
  • Canada (2)
  • Germany (2)
  • Sweden (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
36M
Group Appearance index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
LANDR 16 Jul 2019 Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Big Data, Music Early Stage Venture 15M Quebec, Montreal, Canada
VersusGame 15 Jun 2022 Early Stage Venture 25M United States, California

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