Sidekick Fund

Total investments

15

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

2.50

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

4

Areas of investment
AccountingE-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailAnalyticsFood and BeverageHealth CareInsurTechDeveloper Platform

Summary

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Sidekick Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, GoHealth, FundersClub. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Hardware Club. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by QueensBridge Venture Partners, Stage One Capital, Sandy Cass.

When the investment is from Sidekick Fund the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Sidekick Fund works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Shopping. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ring, FIGS, dataPlor. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
2.50
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • E-Commerce (3)
  • Retail (3)
  • Financial Services (3)
  • Analytics (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
  • United Kingdom (3)
Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Choco 15 Apr 2020 Supply Chain Management, Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Marketing, Delivery Service, Food Delivery Early Stage Venture 30M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
CoverForce 01 Jan 2022 Insurance, InsurTech, Developer APIs, Commercial Insurance Seed 5M United States, New York, New York
Encore Alert 01 Jul 2015 Internet, Software, Analytics, Marketing Seed 395K United States, Virginia, Arlington
20 Jun 2014 Retail, Marketing, Advertising Venture - Series Unknown 11M United States, Boston
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