Serena Ventures

Type

Venture Capital, Angel Group/Syndicate

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

68

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

57

Rounds per year

6.80

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechRetailInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageHealth CareWellnessWomen's

Summary

Serena Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Serena Ventures, startups are often financed by Brand Foundry Ventures, Y Combinator, Vayner/RSE. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GV, Brand Foundry Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, GV, Spark Capital.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2020. This Serena Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Serena Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer Goods, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Impossible Foods, Andela, Billie

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseBlockchain/Crypto/Web3Climate techCommunity/Social network Show 6 more
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Check size
Up to 500K

Preferences and restrictions

Requirements for founders
Female People of color

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
68
Lead investments
4
Exits
2
Rounds per year
6.80
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (14)
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • FinTech (9)
  • Women's (9)
  • Wellness (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (58)
  • Israel (2)
  • Uganda (2)
  • Canada (2)
  • Nigeria (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
303M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Remote Coach 27 Feb 2024 Software, Fitness, Health Care Seed 1M England, London, United Kingdom
Wondermind 11 Aug 2022 Health Care, Wellness, Medical Seed 5M United States, New York, New York

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