Switch Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
67
8M
37
6.70
3
0.39
10
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Switch Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.
This organization was formed by Paul Arnold. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Big Data, Analytics. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Policygenius, Tolemi, Allay.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Switch Ventures works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Switch Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 partakers. Despite the Switch Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Pear Ventures, Arena Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Arena Ventures, Slow Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Foundation Capital, Arena Ventures, Insight Partners.
Investor highlights
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 67
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 6.70
- Follow on index
- 0.39
- Investments by industry
- Software (22)
- Big Data (14)
- Information Technology (11)
- FinTech (9)
- Financial Services (7) Show 80 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (61)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 17M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.99
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.01
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Felix | 28 May 2024 | FinTech, Payments, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing | Early Stage Venture | 15M | United States, California, San Francisco |
Pluto | 31 May 2022 | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | Seed | 4M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
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