SEEK Ltd.

Total investments

54

Average round size

37M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

2.00

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.56

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareE-LearningHuman ResourcesRecruitingSaaSCorporate TrainingTrainingEducationEmployment

Summary

In 1997 was created SEEK Ltd., which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Melbourne. The fund was located in Australia.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this SEEK Ltd. works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

This organization was formed by Andrew Bassat, Matt Rockman, Paul Bassat.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the SEEK Ltd., startups are often financed by OneVentures, Transition Level Investments, Santiago Schettini. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valor Capital Group, OneVentures, FJ Labs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Valor Capital Group, OneVentures.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Employment, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight One Africa Media, SWITCH, Sidekicker. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Australia.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
54
Lead investments
12
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.00
Follow on index
0.56
Investments by industry
  • Human Resources (21)
  • SaaS (20)
  • Software (17)
  • Employment (16)
  • Recruiting (13)
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Investments by region
  • Australia (27)
  • United States (5)
  • Spain (2)
  • China (2)
  • United Kingdom (4)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
436M
Group Appearance index
0.59
Avg. company exit year
7
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
MyTutor 13 Sep 2021 E-Commerce, E-Learning, Education, Tutoring Early Stage Venture 20M England, London, United Kingdom
Vervoe 01 Dec 2019 Software, Recruiting, Machine Learning, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Skill Assessment Early Stage Venture 2M Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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