Switch Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

67

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

6.70

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

10

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyB2BBig DataDeveloper ToolsInsurance

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.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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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)
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Investments by region
  • United States (61)
Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

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
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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