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The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF)

Founders Liz Luckett Rashid Galadanci

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 2.31
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Software
Summary

The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New City. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF), startups are often financed by Texas Venture Labs, Techstars Ventures, Serious Change. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars Ventures, Serious Change, Colle Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars Ventures, Techstars Impact Accelerator, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund).

The current fund was established by Liz Luckett, Rashid Galadanci. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Carbon Lighthouse, Frogtek Bop, First Access. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, Financial Services.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Wellth

Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
Personal Health
$20M30 Mar 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Cushion

B2C
Consumer Applications
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$12M12 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Key

Consumer Lending
$8M08 Mar 2022 Ontario, California, United States

Mentor Spaces

Brand Marketing
Career Planning
College Recruiting
Recruiting
Social Recruiting
$2M29 Jul 2021 Denver, Colorado, United States

Driver Technologies

Apps
Mobile Apps
Social Media
Video
$8M01 Jun 2021 New York, New York, United States

Stoovo

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Freelance
Sharing Economy
Staffing Agency
Virtual Workforce
$2M02 Mar 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Voxy EnGen

E-Learning
Education
Training
$6M07 Jan 2021 Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Driver Technologies

Apps
Mobile Apps
Social Media
Video
$2M03 Nov 2020 New York, New York, United States

Climb Credit

Credit
FinTech
Lending
$9M26 Jun 2019 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 30
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 2.31
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Wellth

Health Care
Information Technology
mHealth
Personal Health
$20M30 Mar 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Cushion

B2C
Consumer Applications
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$12M12 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Key

Consumer Lending
$8M08 Mar 2022 Ontario, California, United States

Mentor Spaces

Brand Marketing
Career Planning
College Recruiting
Recruiting
Social Recruiting
$2M29 Jul 2021 Denver, Colorado, United States

Driver Technologies

Apps
Mobile Apps
Social Media
Video
$8M01 Jun 2021 New York, New York, United States

Stoovo

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Freelance
Sharing Economy
Staffing Agency
Virtual Workforce
$2M02 Mar 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Voxy EnGen

E-Learning
Education
Training
$6M07 Jan 2021 Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Driver Technologies

Apps
Mobile Apps
Social Media
Video
$2M03 Nov 2020 New York, New York, United States

Climb Credit

Credit
FinTech
Lending
$9M26 Jun 2019 New York, New York, United States
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