Social Leverage
Venture Capital
Active
Scottsdale, United States
141
8M
94
9.40
16
0.33
31
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Social Leverage is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. 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 Phoenix.
The fund was created by Howard Lindzon, Tom Peterson. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Social Media. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Robinhood, Even Financial, PlaceIQ.
The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. This Social Leverage works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Social Leverage is 50-100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Social Leverage, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Techstars Boulder Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars Ventures, Techstars, Hinge Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, Plug and Play, Lerer Hippeau.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 99000000
- Fund raised date
- 2021-06-15
Analytics
- Total investments
- 141
- Lead investments
- 16
- Exits
- 31
- Rounds per year
- 9.40
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Software (45)
- FinTech (39)
- Financial Services (36)
- SaaS (21)
- Enterprise Software (20) Show 165 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (131)
- Israel (2)
- Singapore (2)
- Canada (4)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2011
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 5
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 214M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.95
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.38
- Strategy success index
- 0.80
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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11thestate | 29 May 2024 | Seed | 2M | United States, California, San Francisco | |
GiveForward | 14 Feb 2011 | Financial Services, Finance, Crowdfunding | Seed | 500K | United States, Illinois, Chicago |
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