Saama Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

104

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

48

Rounds per year

8.67

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.54

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechFinanceFood and BeverageFood ProcessingAppsRestaurantsSnack Food

Summary

Saama Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The venture was found in Asia in India. The main department of described VC is located in the Bangalore.

The current fund was established by Ash Lilani, Suresh Shanmugham. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Information Technology. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get 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 - India. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Snapdeal, Bluestone.com, iYogi.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Saama Capital works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from Saama Capital the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Saama Capital, startups are often financed by DSG Consumer Partners, Accel, Nexus Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Accel, Sequoia Capital India, Nexus Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DSG Consumer Partners, Accel, InnoVen Capital.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
India
Check size
500K — 4M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
104
Lead investments
19
Exits
3
Rounds per year
8.67
Follow on index
0.54
Investments by industry
  • Food and Beverage (24)
  • E-Commerce (24)
  • Financial Services (16)
  • Software (15)
  • Food Processing (15)
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Investments by region
  • India (90)
  • United States (13)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2021
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
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
145M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Go Zero 19 Jun 2024 Food and Beverage, Snack Food Seed 1M Maharashtra, Andheri, India
Go Zero 08 Aug 2023 Food and Beverage, Snack Food Seed 1M Maharashtra, Andheri, India

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