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Square Peg Capital

Founders Barry Brott Justin Liberman Paul Bassat Tony Holt

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Total investments 155
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$46M
Portfolio companies 85
Rounds per year 12.92
Lead investments 41
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.45
Exits 9
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • FinTech
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lorikeet

Customer Service
03 Oct 2024 Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

CodiumAI

Artificial Intelligence
Web Development
30 Sep 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Cuttable

Advertising
Content
$5M23 Jul 2024 South Yarra, Victoria, Australia

Paper.id

FinTech
Mobile Apps
Payments
Software
13 Jun 2024 Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Mindverse

$5M11 Apr 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Constantinople

Customer Service
SaaS
Software
$36M01 Apr 2024 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Exodigo

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Software
$75M27 Feb 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Amber Electric

E-Commerce
Energy
Renewable Energy
$21M30 Jan 2024 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Doctor Anywhere

Health Care
Hospital
Information Technology
Unified Communications
$40M06 Dec 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore
News
AI model optimization startup Deci raises $21M

– Tel Aviv, Israel-based Deci, a company developing a platform to optimize machine learning models, announced that it raised $21 million in a series A round led by Insight Partners with participation from Square Peg, Emerge, Jibe Ventures, Samsung Next, Vintage Investment Partners, and Fort Ross Ventures.
– The investment, which comes a year after Deci’s $9.1 million seed round, brings the company’s total capital raised to $30.1 million and will be used to support growth by expanding sales, marketing, and service operations, according to CEO Yonatan Geifman.

Sternum Closes $27M Series B Funding

– Sternum from Tel Aviv develops a scalable platform to bring security, observability and data capture to every IoT device.
– Series B $27m round was led by Spark Capital with participation from existing investors Square Peg Capital, the Hinrich Foundation, btov, and other private investors.
– The new investment will be used for R&D – to advance its scalable platform – and for team expansion as the company ramps up global go-to-market efforts.

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Total investments 155
Average round size 46M
Rounds per year 12.92
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 41
Follow on index 0.45
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lorikeet

Customer Service
03 Oct 2024 Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

CodiumAI

Artificial Intelligence
Web Development
30 Sep 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Cuttable

Advertising
Content
$5M23 Jul 2024 South Yarra, Victoria, Australia

Paper.id

FinTech
Mobile Apps
Payments
Software
13 Jun 2024 Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Mindverse

$5M11 Apr 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Constantinople

Customer Service
SaaS
Software
$36M01 Apr 2024 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Exodigo

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Software
$75M27 Feb 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Amber Electric

E-Commerce
Energy
Renewable Energy
$21M30 Jan 2024 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Doctor Anywhere

Health Care
Hospital
Information Technology
Unified Communications
$40M06 Dec 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore
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