Second Century Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

254

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

144

Rounds per year

16.93

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

18

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareProperty ManagementReal Estate InvestmentCommercial Real Estate

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States. Second Century Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DocuSign, Pro.com, DialogTech We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Financial Services. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The typical startup value when the investment from Second Century Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Second Century Ventures performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the Second Century Ventures, startups are often financed by Sigma Partners, Ignition Partners, Frazier Technology Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are REach, WestRiver Group, LLC, Steve Morgan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by REach, Salesforce Ventures, Lighter Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Proptech/Real EstateFintechInsurtech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 15000000
Fund raised date
2021-02-03

Analytics

Total investments
254
Lead investments
19
Exits
18
Rounds per year
16.93
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Real Estate (131)
  • Software (68)
  • SaaS (37)
  • FinTech (32)
  • Real Estate Investment (28)
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Investments by region
  • United States (193)
  • Australia (16)
  • Canada (20)
  • United Kingdom (7)
  • Estonia (3)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
37M
Group Appearance index
0.68
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
3.41
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Local Logic 02 Aug 2023 Real Estate, Information Technology, Information Services, Big Data, Real Estate Investment, Commercial Real Estate, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 13M Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Prisidio 11 Apr 2023 Software, Cloud Computing, Data Storage Seed 3M United States, Illinois, Chicago

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