SharesPost Investment Management

Total investments

86

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

77

Rounds per year

6.62

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

40

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCloud ComputingAdvertising

Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the SharesPost Investment Management, startups are often financed by Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Ventures, Trinity Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are EquityZen, Pilot Growth Equity, Industry Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founders Circle Capital, Manhattan Venture Partners, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners).

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spotify, Lyft, Palantir Technologies. 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 Advertising, Enterprise Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Sven Weber. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The average startup value when the investment from SharesPost Investment Management is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this SharesPost Investment Management performs on 15 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Analytics

Total investments
86
Lead investments
1
Exits
40
Rounds per year
6.62
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (34)
  • Enterprise Software (20)
  • Analytics (16)
  • Information Technology (14)
  • SaaS (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (82)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
30
Number of Decacorns
35
Number of Minotaurs
15

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4B
Group Appearance index
0.35
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
3.10
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Metabiota 20 May 2015 Analytics, Health Care, Big Data, Risk Management Early Stage Venture 31M United States, California, San Francisco
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