The Hit Forge
Venture Capital
San Francisco, United States
6
1M
5
0.40
0.17
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The Hit Forge is the famous VC, which was founded in 2007. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
This organization was formed by Naval Ravikant. The overall number of key employees were 1.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2007. This The Hit Forge works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Ride Sharing, Online Games. 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 Cabify, WeGame, Jambool The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the The Hit Forge, startups are often financed by True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Uncork Capital, True Ventures, Felicis Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Seaya Ventures, Brendan Wallace, VARIV Capital.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.40
- Follow on index
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Online Games (3)
- Social Media (3)
- Gaming (2)
- Internet (2)
- Semantic Search (1) Show 12 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (5)
- Spain (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2007
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 14
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 240M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.83
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesmo | 01 Oct 2007 | Online Games, Casual Games | Early Stage Venture | 900K | United States, California, San Francisco |
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