Total investments

7

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

1.17

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.29

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
CommercialFinancial ServicesFinTechE-LearningGamingFinanceEdTechComputerHardwareDigital Entertainment

Summary

In 2016 was created Sesame Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Sesame Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Gaming, Computer. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Yup.com, Step, Kano The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Sesame Ventures, startups are often financed by Collaborative Fund, Index Ventures, Breyer Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Collaborative Fund, Index Ventures, WndrCo. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by WndrCo, Stripe, Ronnie Lott.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
1.17
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Hardware (2)
  • Computer (2)
  • E-Learning (2)
  • Finance (2)
  • Financial Services (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (4)
  • United Kingdom (3)
Peak activity year
2019

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
47M
Group Appearance index
0.86

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Yup.com 14 Apr 2016 Mobile, Apps, EdTech, Tutoring Seed 4M United States, California, San Francisco

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