Scout Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

125

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

82

Rounds per year

8.33

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

22

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSMarketingSocial MediaDigital Media

Summary

In 2011 was created Scout Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Scout Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Scout Ventures performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Bradley C. Harrison. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Scout Ventures, startups are often financed by Quotidian Ventures, Joanne Wilson, Great Oaks Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Great Oaks Venture Capital, 500 Startups, SeedInvest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Great Oaks Venture Capital, Social Starts, SeedInvest.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Social Media, Analytics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Signpost, Voyat, LiveNinja. The fund has no 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 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 - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataCloud/InfrastructureRoboticsDeep TechCybersecurity Show 3 more
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
1M — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 94000000
Fund raised date
2024-01-05

Analytics

Total investments
125
Lead investments
8
Exits
22
Rounds per year
8.33
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Software (29)
  • SaaS (19)
  • Mobile (17)
  • Social Media (13)
  • Marketing (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (120)
  • Canada (4)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
39M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SightX 19 Sep 2022 Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS, Market Research, Predictive Analytics Seed United States, New York, New York
Kanvas Labs 21 Dec 2011 Mobile, Lifestyle, Social Media, Photography, Photo Sharing Seed 1M United States, New York, New York

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