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Sesame Ventures

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 1.17
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Hardware
  • Computer
  • E-Learning
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Banjo Robinson

Digital Entertainment
EdTech
Gaming
$1M06 Nov 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Luminopia

Commercial
Computer Vision
Industrial
Software
Virtual Reality
$5M01 Nov 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$22M06 Jun 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M31 Jan 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Kano

Computer
E-Learning
Hardware
$28M01 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Yup.com

Apps
EdTech
Mobile
Tutoring
$4M14 Apr 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.17
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.29
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Banjo Robinson

Digital Entertainment
EdTech
Gaming
$1M06 Nov 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Luminopia

Commercial
Computer Vision
Industrial
Software
Virtual Reality
$5M01 Nov 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$22M06 Jun 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M31 Jan 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Kano

Computer
E-Learning
Hardware
$28M01 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Yup.com

Apps
EdTech
Mobile
Tutoring
$4M14 Apr 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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