Prehype

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

18

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

1.29

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyTransportationSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileFitnessHealth CareBlockchainFreelance

Summary

Prehype appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This organization was formed by Henrik Werdelin, Philip Petersen. Besides them, we counted 18 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Prehype works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Email. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Managed by Q, FLOWER CO, Catch For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Prehype, startups are often financed by Slow Ventures, BoxGroup, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Josh Abramson, Slow Ventures, Scott Belsky. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Slow Ventures, RRE Ventures, Homebrew.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
1.29
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Health Care (3)
  • Fitness (3)
  • Software (2)
  • Mobile (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
  • France (1)
  • Denmark (1)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
500M
Group Appearance index
0.61
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.91
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AND CO 20 Oct 2015 FinTech, Mobile, Personalization, Freelance Seed 500K United States, New York
Hilma 01 Jan 2021 Biotechnology, Fitness, Health Care, Personal Health, Organic Seed United States, New York, New York
Truebill 27 Jun 2016 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Personal Finance, Billing Seed 1M United States, Maryland, Silver Spring

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