S3 Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

103

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

57

Rounds per year

5.42

Lead investments

30

Follow on index

0.45

Exits

18

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMedicalCloud Data Services

Summary

In 2007 was created S3 Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Austin. The company was established in North America in United States.

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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Pivot3, Alkami Technology, OutboundEngine The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Mobile.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the S3 Ventures, startups are often financed by Austin Ventures, Silverton Partners, Mesirow Financial. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Silverton Partners, Argonaut Private Equity, HealthpointCapital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Argonaut Private Equity, HealthpointCapital, Silverton Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this S3 Ventures performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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Investor highlights

Lead investor
Yes
Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseAR/VRHealthcare
Stage focus
SeedSeries DSeries CSeries ASeries E Show 1 more
Geo focus
United States, Texas
Check size
500K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 250000000
Fund raised date
2022-03-01

Analytics

Total investments
103
Lead investments
30
Exits
18
Rounds per year
5.42
Follow on index
0.45
Investments by industry
  • Software (45)
  • SaaS (20)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • Health Care (16)
  • Biotechnology (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (99)
  • Canada (1)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
23M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.81

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Allstacks 26 Oct 2022 Business/Productivity Software, Software, Machine Learning, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 12M United States, North Carolina, Raleigh
Hydrolix 22 May 2024 Internet, Information Technology, Cloud Data Services, Database, Outsourcing Early Stage Venture 35M United States, Oregon, Portland

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