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Second Avenue Partners

Founders Mike Slade Nick Hanauer Pete Higgins

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 2.29
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 6
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Industrial
  • SaaS
  • Manufacturing
Summary

Second Avenue Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Seattle.

The fund was created by Mike Slade. The overall number of key employees were 3.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Industrial. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Modumetal, FLEXE, AudienceScience. 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 location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Second Avenue Partners, startups are often financed by Glassdoor, Version One Ventures, Ignition Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Glassdoor, Catamount Ventures, Version One Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Catamount Ventures, Version One Ventures, Madrona Venture Group.

This Second Avenue Partners works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Second Avenue Partners is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FitOn

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Personal Health
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$40M15 Feb 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

FitOn

Fitness
mHealth
Mobile Apps
Personal Health
Wellness
$40M15 Dec 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Knack Shops

Gift
Retail
$3M19 Nov 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

FitOn

Fitness
mHealth
Mobile Apps
Personal Health
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$18M12 Oct 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Seeq

Analytics
Commercial
Industrial
Internet of Things
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$50M13 Apr 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Seeq

Analytics
Commercial
Industrial
Internet of Things
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$5M09 Sep 2020 Seattle, Washington, United States

RealSelf

Beauty
Cosmetics
Health Care
Internet
10 Aug 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

Seeq

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Industrial
Internet of Things
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$23M18 Jul 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

Slope

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Enterprise Software
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01 Feb 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States
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Knock raises $20M as pandemic drives demand for software used by apartment property managers

– Knock, a software company for apartment property managers, raised $20m funding.
– The round was led by Fifth Wall and joined by Madrona Venture Group, Lead Edge Capital, Second Avenue Partners and Seven Peaks Ventures.
– Vik Chawla, partner at Fifth Wall, will join Knock’s board.

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Total investments 55
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 2.29
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FitOn

Fitness
mHealth
Mobile Apps
Personal Health
Wellness
$40M15 Feb 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

FitOn

Fitness
mHealth
Mobile Apps
Personal Health
Wellness
$40M15 Dec 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Knack Shops

Gift
Retail
$3M19 Nov 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

FitOn

Fitness
mHealth
Mobile Apps
Personal Health
Wellness
$18M12 Oct 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Seeq

Analytics
Commercial
Industrial
Internet of Things
Software
$50M13 Apr 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Seeq

Analytics
Commercial
Industrial
Internet of Things
Software
$5M09 Sep 2020 Seattle, Washington, United States

RealSelf

Beauty
Cosmetics
Health Care
Internet
10 Aug 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

Seeq

Analytics
Commercial
Industrial
Internet of Things
Software
$23M18 Jul 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

Slope

Advertising
Consulting
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Marketing
SaaS
Software
01 Feb 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States
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