Riot Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Los Angeles, United States

Total investments

26

Average round size

51M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

3.71

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateSoftwareInformation TechnologyFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsManufacturing

Summary

Riot Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Stephen Marcus, Will Coffield. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from Riot Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Precious Metals, Point of Sale. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sentenai, Simbe Robotics, System1 Biosciences. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Riot Ventures, startups are often financed by Lowe's Ventures, GV, Future Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vijay Pradeep, Tiger Global Management, TCV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Valo Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataTelecommunicationsMobilityCybersecurityDeep Tech
Stage focus
GeneralistSeedSeries CSeries APre-Seed Show 1 more
Check size
Up to 100M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 90000000

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
3.71
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (16)
  • Robotics (9)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
  • Machine Learning (6)
  • Information Technology (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (26)
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
495M
Group Appearance index
0.92

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Elementary Robotics 16 Dec 2021 Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics Early Stage Venture 30M United States, California, Los Angeles
True Anomaly 12 Dec 2023 Aerospace, Space Travel, Machinery Manufacturing Early Stage Venture 100M United States, Colorado, Denver

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