Social Starts
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
471
2M
343
39.25
9
0.26
51
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2012 was created Social Starts, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Epic!, Stratifyd, Grovo. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Artificial Intelligence.
Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this Social Starts performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Social Starts is 5-10 millions dollars.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Social Starts, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Techstars New York City Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Eniac Ventures, Wavemaker Partners, TSVC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Eniac Ventures, GV, Y Combinator.
Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 471
- Lead investments
- 9
- Exits
- 51
- Rounds per year
- 39.25
- Follow on index
- 0.26
- Investments by industry
- Software (97)
- Health Care (87)
- Mobile (57)
- Artificial Intelligence (49)
- SaaS (48) Show 290 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (402)
- India (2)
- Canada (14)
- Netherlands (3)
- Japan (8) Show 13 more
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 14M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.70
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.36
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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FlyData | 01 Jun 2013 | Software, Analytics, SaaS, Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Data Integration, Cloud Computing | Seed | 925K | United States, California, Sunnyvale |
Mae | 07 May 2024 | Health Care, Wellness, Women's | Seed | United States, New York, New York |
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