Social Starts

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

471

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

343

Rounds per year

39.25

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

51

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSAppsSocial Media

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.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareEcommerceFoodtechEdtech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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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)
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Investments by region
  • United States (402)
  • India (2)
  • Canada (14)
  • Netherlands (3)
  • Japan (8)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

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
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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