Sway Ventures

Summary

Sway Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Sway Ventures, startups are often financed by Formation 8, Shasta Ventures, Trident Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shasta Ventures, Formation 8, 8VC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 8VC, Shasta Ventures, Y Combinator.

The typical startup value when the investment from Sway Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. This Sway Ventures works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The current fund was established by Bill Malloy, Brent Granado, Brian Nugent, Darius Sankey. We also calculated 13 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Addepar, LE TOTE. 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 specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.