Spero Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Burlingame, United States

Total investments

49

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

31

Rounds per year

8.17

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareWellnessEducationPersonal Health

Summary

In 2018 was created Spero Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Redwood City.

The real fund results show that this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Robotics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Skillshare, Core, Gencove. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Spero Ventures, startups are often financed by Omidyar Network, Union Square Ventures, UP2398. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UP2398, BootstrapLabs, Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UP2398, National Institutes of Health, Millennium Technology Value Partners.

The fund was created by Rob Veres, Shripriya Mahesh. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareClimate techEdtechFuture of Work
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
2M — 4M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 123000000

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
13
Exits
1
Rounds per year
8.17
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (12)
  • Internet (11)
  • Software (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Education (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hyro 31 May 2023 B2B, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Natural Language Processing, Virtual Assistant Early Stage Venture 20M United States, New York, New York
Eli 14 Feb 2024 Service Industry Seed 6M

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