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Shea Ventures

Founders Edmund Shea John F. Shea

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Total investments 77
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 52
Rounds per year 1.38
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 23
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

In 1968 was created Shea Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Walnut. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Shea Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. This Shea Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The fund was created by Edmund Shea, John F. Shea. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Shea Ventures, startups are often financed by True Ventures, Mayfield Fund, GV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foundry Group, GV, Mayfield Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, GV, True Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Enterprise Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SolarCity, Ring, 3D Robotics

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Full Glass Wine Co

$14M04 Apr 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Stackwell

$3M03 Aug 2022 -

Capital Markets Gateway

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
20 Jan 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pacaso

Marketplace
Property Management
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
Residential
$75M24 Mar 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Capital Markets Gateway

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$25M25 Jun 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Hatch

Baby
Consumer Electronics
Lifestyle
$9M04 May 2020 California, United States

Capital Markets Gateway

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$7M13 Mar 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Hatch

Baby
Consumer Electronics
Lifestyle
$6M19 Sep 2018 California, United States

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B2C
Big Data
Commercial
E-Commerce
Marketplace
SaaS
Wine And Spirits
$15M07 Sep 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 77
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 1.38
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Full Glass Wine Co

$14M04 Apr 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Stackwell

$3M03 Aug 2022 -

Capital Markets Gateway

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
20 Jan 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pacaso

Marketplace
Property Management
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
Residential
$75M24 Mar 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Capital Markets Gateway

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$25M25 Jun 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Hatch

Baby
Consumer Electronics
Lifestyle
$9M04 May 2020 California, United States

Capital Markets Gateway

Analytics
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$7M13 Mar 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Hatch

Baby
Consumer Electronics
Lifestyle
$6M19 Sep 2018 California, United States

Drinks

B2C
Big Data
Commercial
E-Commerce
Marketplace
SaaS
Wine And Spirits
$15M07 Sep 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States
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