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The Hit Forge

Founders Naval Ravikant

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.40
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 3
Key employees 1
http://hitforge.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Online Games
  • Social Media
  • Gaming
  • Internet
  • Semantic Search
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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These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of The Hit Forge:
1 True Ventures
Typical Co-investors
The Hit Forge is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
1 EchoVC Partners
2 Elsewhere Partners
3 SVM Verwaltungsgesellschaft
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after The Hit Forge:
1 Labor Dr. Krause & Kollegen MVZ
2 SVM Verwaltungsgesellschaft
3 Telia Ventures

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5 SOSV
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4 Trebol Capital
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Naval Ravikant Founder

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cabify

Internet
Logistics
Mobile
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$3M16 Sep 2012
E-Merge
Winklevoss capital
The Hit Forge
RESOLUTE Partners
Red Swan Ventures
 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Jambool

Apps
E-Commerce
Finance
Financial Services
Internet
Social Media
Virtual Currency
Virtual Goods
$1M01 Aug 2008
The Hit Forge
CRV
Bay Partners
 San Francisco, California, United States

WeGame

Gaming
Online Games
Social Media
$3M01 Mar 2008
Felicis Ventures
Uncork Capital
True Ventures
The Hit Forge
Transmedia Capital
 San Francisco, California, United States

WeGame

Gaming
Online Games
Social Media
$500K08 Oct 2007
True Ventures
The Hit Forge
 San Francisco, California, United States

Mesmo

Casual Games
Online Games
$900K01 Oct 2007
Felicis Ventures
FLOODGATE
Uncork Capital
The Hit Forge
 San Francisco, California, United States

DotSpots

Public Relations
Semantic Search
$300K01 Sep 2007
The Hit Forge
 Torrance, California, United States
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Total investments 6
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.40
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cabify

Internet
Logistics
Mobile
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$3M16 Sep 2012
E-Merge
Winklevoss capital
The Hit Forge
RESOLUTE Partners
Red Swan Ventures
 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Jambool

Apps
E-Commerce
Finance
Financial Services
Internet
Social Media
Virtual Currency
Virtual Goods
$1M01 Aug 2008
The Hit Forge
CRV
Bay Partners
 San Francisco, California, United States

WeGame

Gaming
Online Games
Social Media
$3M01 Mar 2008
Felicis Ventures
Uncork Capital
True Ventures
The Hit Forge
Transmedia Capital
 San Francisco, California, United States

WeGame

Gaming
Online Games
Social Media
$500K08 Oct 2007
True Ventures
The Hit Forge
 San Francisco, California, United States

Mesmo

Casual Games
Online Games
$900K01 Oct 2007
Felicis Ventures
FLOODGATE
Uncork Capital
The Hit Forge
 San Francisco, California, United States

DotSpots

Public Relations
Semantic Search
$300K01 Sep 2007
The Hit Forge
 Torrance, California, United States
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