Red Swan Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

88

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

71

Rounds per year

7.33

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

27

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechMobileFinanceSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

In 2011 was created Red Swan Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 participants. Despite the Red Swan Ventures, startups are often financed by Thrive Capital, Lerer Hippeau, BoxGroup. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bessemer Venture Partners, Collaborative Fund, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founders Fund, Accel, Uncork Capital.

The fund was created by Andy Dunn, Dave Eisenberg. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Red Swan Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Red Swan Ventures performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coinbase, Oscar Health Insurance Co., Cabify. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, SaaS. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund raised date
2022-01-01

Analytics

Total investments
88
Lead investments
2
Exits
27
Rounds per year
7.33
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Software (20)
  • E-Commerce (17)
  • FinTech (17)
  • Financial Services (14)
  • Real Estate (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (85)
  • Spain (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
11
Number of Decacorns
11
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
523M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.33
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cabify 16 Sep 2012 Logistics, Internet, Transportation, Mobile, Ride Sharing Seed 3M Community of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
EverTrue 09 Sep 2011 Software, Analytics, Mobile, SaaS, Non Profit, Web Hosting Seed 1M United States, Massachusetts, Boston

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