Stripes

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

129

Average round size

66M

Portfolio companies

86

Rounds per year

8.06

Lead investments

29

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

18

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaS

Summary

Stripes is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

This organization was formed by Ken Fox.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Stripes performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Stripes is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 50 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Audio. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Udemy, Kareo, Seamless Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Stripes, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, GV, Bessemer Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Western Technology Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Silicon Valley Bank, OpenView Venture Partners, Greenspring Associates.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
129
Lead investments
29
Exits
18
Rounds per year
8.06
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Software (31)
  • Information Technology (28)
  • SaaS (21)
  • Machine Learning (17)
  • E-Commerce (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (108)
  • Denmark (4)
  • Israel (6)
  • Germany (3)
  • Brazil (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
21
Number of Decacorns
21
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
829M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
9.96
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Nomad 16 May 2022 Financial Services Early Stage Venture 30M São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Pomelo Care 20 Jun 2024 Health Care, Hospital, Mobile Apps, Child Care Early Stage Venture 46M United States, New York, New York

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