Spark Capital
340
44M
60
17.00
121
0.45
18
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Spark Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2005. The main department of described VC is located in the Boston. The company was established in North America in United States.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Twitter, Slack Technologies, Coinbase. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
The current fund was established by Paul Conway, Santo Politi, Todd Dagres. The overall number of key employees were 9.
The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. This Spark Capital works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Spark Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Spark Capital, startups are often financed by Tuesday Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Uncork Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Tuesday Capital, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by T. Rowe Price, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Matrix Partners.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 340
- Lead investments
- 121
- Exits
- 18
- Rounds per year
- 17.00
- Follow on index
- 0.45
- Investments by industry
- Software (19)
- Internet (15)
- Financial Services (10)
- Travel (10)
- Tourism (10) Show 141 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (56)
- United Kingdom (2)
- China (2)
- Netherlands (1)
- Canada (2) Show 3 more
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 8
- Number of Decacorns
- 10
- Number of Minotaurs
- 5
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.07
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.15
- Strategy success index
- 0.90
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reggora | 12 Jan 2021 | Real Estate | Early Stage Venture | 30M | United States, Massachusetts, Boston |
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