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SWaN & Legend Venture Partners

Founders Fred Schaufeld

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Total investments 33
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$23M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 2.75
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.48
Exits 2
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Gift Card
  • Retail
  • Software
  • Local
Summary

In 2012 was created SWaN & Legend Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Leesburg. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SWaN & Legend Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Revolution, New Enterprise Associates, Grotech Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Revolution, New Enterprise Associates, NextGen Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Revolution, Western Technology Investment, New Enterprise Associates.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Optoro, Tango Card, Framebridge. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Hospitality. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this SWaN & Legend Venture Partners works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UrbanStems

E-Commerce
Flowers
Gift Card
Local
$5M04 Jan 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Class Technologies

E-Learning
EdTech
Information Technology
Software
Video Conferencing
$105M28 Jul 2021 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

UrbanStems

E-Commerce
Flowers
Gift Card
Local
$20M05 May 2021 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Professional Fighters League

Association
Sports
$50M17 Jan 2020 District of Columbia, United States

UrbanStems

E-Commerce
Flowers
Gift Card
Local
$12M15 Aug 2019 District of Columbia, United States

One Night

Hospitality
Hotel
Service Industry
$5M26 Feb 2019 New York, United States

SHOWFIELDS

E-Commerce
Retail
$9M22 Feb 2019 New York, New York, United States

Veritonic Inc.

Advertising
Analytics
Business/Productivity Software
Market Research
Marketing
Media and Information Services (B2B)
$3M31 Jul 2018 Connecticut, United States

Framebridge

E-Commerce
Home Decor
Internet
Retail
$30M18 Jul 2018 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
News
Class Technologies Closes $105M Series B

– Class Technologies, an edtech platform, has raised a $105M Series B round.
– Led by the Softbank Vision Fund, the round also includes GSV Ventures, Emergence Capital, Maven Partners, Owl Ventures, Insight Partners, SWaN & Legend Venture Partners, Rise of the Rest Fund, Learn Capital, Reach Capital, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Chimera Investment, Daher Capital, Guy Oseary, Bill Tai and Tom Brady.
– The company was founded by education software pioneer Michael Chasen.

Class Raises $105M in Series B Funding

– Class Technologies Inc. from Washington, DC develops a platform enhancing virtual and hybrid classrooms by adding teaching and learning tools to Zoom.
– Series B $105m round was led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and participated by GSV Ventures, Emergence Capital, Maven Partners, Owl Ventures, Insight Partners, SWaN & Legend Venture Partners, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Fund, Learn Capital, Reach Capital, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Chimera Investment, Daher Capital, Guy Oseary, Bill Tai, and Super Bowl champion and entrepreneur Tom Brady.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth and expand globally into new markets.

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Total investments 33
Average round size 23M
Rounds per year 2.75
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.48
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UrbanStems

E-Commerce
Flowers
Gift Card
Local
$5M04 Jan 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Class Technologies

E-Learning
EdTech
Information Technology
Software
Video Conferencing
$105M28 Jul 2021 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

UrbanStems

E-Commerce
Flowers
Gift Card
Local
$20M05 May 2021 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Professional Fighters League

Association
Sports
$50M17 Jan 2020 District of Columbia, United States

UrbanStems

E-Commerce
Flowers
Gift Card
Local
$12M15 Aug 2019 District of Columbia, United States

One Night

Hospitality
Hotel
Service Industry
$5M26 Feb 2019 New York, United States

SHOWFIELDS

E-Commerce
Retail
$9M22 Feb 2019 New York, New York, United States

Veritonic Inc.

Advertising
Analytics
Business/Productivity Software
Market Research
Marketing
Media and Information Services (B2B)
$3M31 Jul 2018 Connecticut, United States

Framebridge

E-Commerce
Home Decor
Internet
Retail
$30M18 Jul 2018 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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