Square Peg Capital

Summary

Square Peg Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The fund was located in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Melbourne.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Square Peg Capital, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Sequoia Capital, Jungle Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Valar Ventures, Matt Rockman. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Blackbird Ventures (Australia), General Catalyst, Valar Ventures.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Stripe, Canva. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Barry Brott, Justin Liberman, Paul Bassat, Tony Holt. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. When the investment is from Square Peg Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Square Peg Capital works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.