Thayer Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

61

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

39

Rounds per year

4.07

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.36

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileMessagingSaaSEnterprise SoftwareTravelHospitalityHotel

Summary

The main office of represented 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 5-6 partakers. Despite the Thayer Ventures, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, Fortify Ventures, Militello Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Plug and Play, Middleland Capital, Fortify Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Plug and Play, Structure Capital, Spark Capital.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ADARA, Beekeeper, Duetto. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Travel, SaaS.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from Thayer Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Thayer Ventures performs on 26 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
MobilityTraveltech
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 80000000
Fund raised date
2020-05-12

Analytics

Total investments
61
Lead investments
8
Rounds per year
4.07
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (28)
  • Travel (28)
  • SaaS (23)
  • Hospitality (19)
  • Enterprise Software (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (49)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Switzerland (6)
  • Canada (2)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
63M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Beekeeper 09 Nov 2022 Mobile, Messaging, SaaS, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Real Time, Unified Communications Late Stage Venture 50M Switzerland, Zurich, Zurich
Canary Technologies 12 Jun 2024 Software, Enterprise Software, Hospitality, Hotel Late Stage Venture 50M United States, California, San Francisco

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