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Presence Capital

Founders Paul Bragiel Phil Chen

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Total investments 52
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 44
Rounds per year 6.50
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 7
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Virtual Reality
  • Augmented Reality
  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
Summary

In 2015 was created Presence Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. This Presence Capital works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Presence Capital is 5-10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Fyusion, Meta View, Sandbox VR Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Machine Learning, Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Presence Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, SOSV, National Science Foundation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Colopl Next, The Venture Reality Fund, Signia Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CRCM Ventures, Youku Global Media Fund, Upfront Ventures.

The fund was created by Amitt Mahajan, Paul Bragiel, Phil Chen. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sandbox VR

Content
Digital Entertainment
Location Based Services
Virtual Reality
$37M10 Nov 2021 California, United States

Thirdverse

Augmented Reality
Console Games
Gaming
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$11M10 Aug 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

TRIPP

Computer
Developer Platform
Gaming
$11M25 Jun 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Thirdverse

Augmented Reality
Console Games
Gaming
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$8M06 Oct 2020 Chiyoda

Lightform

Art
Augmented Reality
Digital Signage
Hardware
Internet of Things
Software
Virtual Reality
$8M04 Jun 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Diveplane

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$6M16 Oct 2018 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Camera IQ

Advertising
Apps
Augmented Reality
Marketing
Mobile Apps
Software
Telecommunications
$2M06 Mar 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

Fyusion

3D Technology
Android
Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
Automotive
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
iOS
Machine Learning
Virtual Reality
$22M18 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Sandbox VR

Content
Digital Entertainment
Location Based Services
Virtual Reality
$3M14 Dec 2017 California, United States
News
Tripp Raises $11M in Funding

– TRIPP is a digital psychedelic platform based in Los Angeles.
– The company raised $11m in funding round.
– The round was led by Vine Ventures and Mayfield with participation from Integrated, AlphaBridge Ventures, Beni VC, Berkeley Club, CJ Group, CTR Capital, Evolution, Robert Goldberg, Tony Greenberg, Grit VC, Incisive Ventures, Inflect Health, Iter Investments, Joanna Popper, Jim Dew, Joe Polish, JLS Fund, Lionheart Ventures, Matt Mullenweg, Mike DeLuise, Murtaza Hussain, NeoKuma, Presence Capital, PsyMed Ventures, Redbeard Ventures, Re.Mind Capital, Social Leverage, WhatIf Ventures and other individual investors.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue growing both its team and user base, further R&D, and expand its adaptive platform to support cross-platform distribution.

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Total investments 52
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 6.50
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sandbox VR

Content
Digital Entertainment
Location Based Services
Virtual Reality
$37M10 Nov 2021 California, United States

Thirdverse

Augmented Reality
Console Games
Gaming
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$11M10 Aug 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

TRIPP

Computer
Developer Platform
Gaming
$11M25 Jun 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Thirdverse

Augmented Reality
Console Games
Gaming
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$8M06 Oct 2020 Chiyoda

Lightform

Art
Augmented Reality
Digital Signage
Hardware
Internet of Things
Software
Virtual Reality
$8M04 Jun 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Diveplane

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$6M16 Oct 2018 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Camera IQ

Advertising
Apps
Augmented Reality
Marketing
Mobile Apps
Software
Telecommunications
$2M06 Mar 2018 Santa Monica, California, United States

Fyusion

3D Technology
Android
Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
Automotive
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
iOS
Machine Learning
Virtual Reality
$22M18 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Sandbox VR

Content
Digital Entertainment
Location Based Services
Virtual Reality
$3M14 Dec 2017 California, United States
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