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Shrug Capital

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Total investments 99
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 84
Rounds per year 16.50
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Mobile Apps
  • Marketplace
  • Apps
Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Shrug Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, WndrCo, Weekend Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Niv Dror. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, True Ventures, Thrive Capital.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Daisie, Voiceflow, Zestful. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, Gaming. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hadrian

Aerospace
Logistics
Manufacturing
Software
Supply Chain Management
$92M21 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Debtsy

Consumer Lending
Credit
Financial Services
FinTech
$12M04 Dec 2023 New York, New York, United States

Yaysay

Apps
Fashion
Retail
Shopping
$2M27 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Mona Lee Solar

Consumer
Renewable Energy
Solar
$3M21 Sep 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BetterLeap

$13M18 Sep 2023 -

Olympix

$4M11 Jul 2023 Nyack, New York, United States

Galvanick

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$10M01 Jun 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Async

Audio
Mobile Apps
Software
$4M23 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Blip

Apps
Payments
Software
$2M07 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States
News
Miami twins raise $18M for Lula, an insurance infrastructure upstart

– Lula, a Miami-based insurance infrastructure startup, announced it has raised $18m in a Series A round of funding.
– The round was led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from SoftBank, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, Shrug Capital, Steve Pagliuca (Bain Capital co-chairman and Boston Celtics owner), Tiny Capital’s Andrew Wilkinson. Existing backers such as Nextview Ventures and Florida Funders also invested, in addition to a number of insurance and logistics groups such as Flexport.
– The startup’s self-proclaimed mission is to provide companies of all sizes — from startups to multinational corporations — with insurance infrastructure. Think of it as a “Stripe for insurance,” its founders say.

Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz

– Mem, a free app, is an early access platform dedicated to pushing users to quickly jot down their thoughts without focusing too heavily on the underlying organization of them.
– The startup’s founders have vast ambitions for what their platform could become down the road, tapping into further advances in machine learning and even AR.
– The company raised $5.6m in a seed round led by a16z with additional participation from their Cultural Leadership Fund, Will Smith’s dreamers.vc, Floodgate, Unusual Ventures and Shrug Capital.
– The round also was host to a handful of angel investors including Harry Stebbings, Julia Lipton, Tony Liu, Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg, among others.

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Total investments 99
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 16.50
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.13
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hadrian

Aerospace
Logistics
Manufacturing
Software
Supply Chain Management
$92M21 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Debtsy

Consumer Lending
Credit
Financial Services
FinTech
$12M04 Dec 2023 New York, New York, United States

Yaysay

Apps
Fashion
Retail
Shopping
$2M27 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Mona Lee Solar

Consumer
Renewable Energy
Solar
$3M21 Sep 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BetterLeap

$13M18 Sep 2023 -

Olympix

$4M11 Jul 2023 Nyack, New York, United States

Galvanick

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$10M01 Jun 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Async

Audio
Mobile Apps
Software
$4M23 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Blip

Apps
Payments
Software
$2M07 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States
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