PROOF Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Reston, United States

Total investments

91

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

59

Rounds per year

10.11

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

19

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
PublishingE-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareFashionAdvertising

Summary

PROOF.VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Reston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the PROOF.VC, startups are often financed by Tribeca Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, Stata Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tribeca Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RRE Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates.

This organization was formed by John Backus, Scott McComb Johnson, Thanasis Delistathis, Todd Hixon. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2010. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2006. Comparing to the other companies, this PROOF.VC performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from PROOF.VC is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Education. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Moda Operandi, Truveris, PokitDok 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 needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceCybersecurityB2B/EnterpriseGaming/EsportsMedia/Content Show 4 more
Stage focus
Series BSeries ASeed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
91
Lead investments
12
Exits
19
Rounds per year
10.11
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (18)
  • Software (18)
  • Internet (13)
  • Mobile (12)
  • Advertising (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (87)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Nigeria (1)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2010
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
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
116M
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.73
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Pandion 21 Mar 2024 Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail Early Stage Venture 41M United States, Washington, Seattle
Yieldbot 05 Jun 2014 Publishing, Analytics, Real Time, Advertising, Advertising Platforms Early Stage Venture 18M United States, New York, New York

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