Vayner/RSE

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

37

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

3.08

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareConsumer GoodsFood and BeverageFood ProcessingAppsRestaurantsVirtual RealityEventsSportsMedia and Entertainment

Summary

In 2012 was created RSE Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the RSE Ventures, startups are often financed by Sky, Prudence Holdings, Vayner/RSE. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Prudence Holdings, Lerer Hippeau, Yaron Lemelbaum. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Prudence Holdings, Stephen M. Ross, Yaron Lemelbaum.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Krossover, Banza, PrePlay The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Virtual Reality, Events.

The current fund was established by Matt Higgins, Stephen M. Ross. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from RSE Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This RSE Ventures works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3SportstechMedia/ContentMartech/AdtechConsumer/Retail

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
37
Lead investments
4
Exits
8
Rounds per year
3.08
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Food and Beverage (9)
  • Sports (6)
  • Consumer Goods (5)
  • Food Processing (5)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (36)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
26M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Atomo Coffee 01 Apr 2022 Early Stage Venture 41M United States, Washington, Seattle
NextVR 11 Nov 2015 Broadcasting, Virtual Reality, Media and Entertainment Early Stage Venture 30M United States, California, Newport Beach
WallStrip 01 Jan 2007 News, Video, Blogging Platforms Seed 600K United States, Arizona, Chandler

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