Second Avenue Partners

Status

Active

Location

Seattle, United States

Total investments

54

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

32

Rounds per year

2.35

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareMobileWellnessSaaSMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingAdvertisingIndustrial

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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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
United States, Washington, Greater Puget Sound area

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
54
Lead investments
11
Exits
6
Rounds per year
2.35
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (16)
  • Mobile (12)
  • Industrial (10)
  • SaaS (10)
  • Manufacturing (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (53)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
34M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.61
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
FitOn 15 Dec 2021 Fitness, Wellness, Mobile Apps, Personal Health, mHealth Early Stage Venture 40M United States, California, Los Angeles
Qliance Medical Management 03 Jan 2007 Information Technology, Health Care, Wellness Early Stage Venture 3M United States, Washington, Seattle

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