SaaStr Fund

Total investments

18

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

2.25

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.28

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareB2BRecruitingSaaSSocial MediaDeveloper APIsEmploymentCustomer ServiceCall Center

Summary

In 2016 was created SaaStr Fund, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The fund was created by Jason Lemkin. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

When the investment is from SaaStr Fund the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Social Media, Internet. 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 Algolia, Mapistry, Teamable. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SaaStr Fund, startups are often financed by Point Nine Capital, MergeLane, Storm Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Point Nine Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Dawn Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salesforce Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Insight Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
2.25
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • SaaS (10)
  • Developer APIs (6)
  • Customer Service (3)
  • Social Media (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
274M
Group Appearance index
0.94

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Easy Way to Health 01 Jul 2018 Fitness, Health Care, Wellness, Personal Health Seed 188K South Holland, Leiden, Netherlands
Gorgias 14 May 2024 E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology, Computer, Customer Service, Browser Extensions Late Stage Venture 29M United States, California, San Francisco
Treasury Prime 12 May 2021 Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Enterprise Software, Banking, Developer APIs Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, San Francisco

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