Silas Capital

Total investments

41

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

3.15

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceBeautyFinancial ServicesRetailFinanceFood and BeverageHealth CareWellnessLifestyleFashion

Summary

Silas Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Silas Capital, startups are often financed by Greenhouse Capital Partners, Highway1, Big Sky Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Stage 1 Fund, Lerer Hippeau, BBG Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by blisce/, Union Square Ventures, Rose Park Advisors.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. This Silas Capital works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Crowdsourcing, Health Care. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Casper, Boll & Branch, ILIA Beauty. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 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.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
4
Exits
3
Rounds per year
3.15
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (11)
  • Retail (9)
  • Wellness (9)
  • Food and Beverage (6)
  • Beauty (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (38)
  • Australia (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
68M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Drink Barcode 14 Feb 2022 Retail, Food and Beverage Seed 2M United States, Vermont, Burlington
Ginger Health Company (dba Wonderbelly) 09 Apr 2024 Wellness, Personal Health, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 12M United States, Texas, Austin

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