Serious Change

Total investments

25

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

1.67

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

4

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationEnergyNon Profit

Summary

Serious Change appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2008.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Serious Change, startups are often financed by Tom Williams, Baltimore Angels, Vulcan Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kapor Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners, The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kapor Capital, Techstars Ventures, Impact America Fund.

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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Clean Energy, Finance. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mosaic, Maxwell Health, General Compression.

This organization was formed by Josh Mailman.

When the investment is from Serious Change the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Comparing to the other companies, this Serious Change performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
4
Exits
4
Rounds per year
1.67
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • SaaS (9)
  • Finance (5)
  • FinTech (4)
  • Education (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
80M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Attentive.ly 15 Jun 2013 Social Media, Advertising, Non Profit, CRM, Email Marketing, Social CRM Seed 100K United States, Washington, District of Columbia
Viridis Learning 01 May 2014 Software, Recruiting, SaaS, Enterprise Software Seed United States, New York, New York
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