Synapse Partners

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

20

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

2.50

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

4

Areas of investment
AutomotiveInternetTransportationSoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningManufacturingAutonomous VehiclesHuman Computer Interaction

Summary

Synapse Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Data Integration, Software. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Paxata, Divergent 3D, understand.ai

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Synapse Partners works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Synapse Partners, startups are often financed by Startup Funding Club, True Ventures, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, v1.vc, Western Technology Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GreatPoint Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Inimiti.

This organization was formed by Evangelos Simoudis, Matthew Chagan. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Stage focus
Series ASeries B

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Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
2.50
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Machine Learning (9)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (6)
  • Automotive (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Germany (3)
  • Israel (1)
  • Spain (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3K
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Miles 01 May 2022 Transportation, Lifestyle, Predictive Analytics, Loyalty Programs Early Stage Venture United States, California, Redwood City
Siftery 02 Feb 2016 Internet, Software, Information Technology Seed 4M United States, California, San Francisco
Unicoaero 13 Dec 2016 Transportation, B2B Seed United States, California, Sunnyvale
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