Global Forward Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Singapore, Singapore

Total investments

27

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

3.86

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Financial SoftwareOther Financial ServicesSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsAppsBitcoinBlockchain

Summary

Trend Forward Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Trend Forward Capital seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The main department of described VC is located in the San Jose.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. When the investment is from Trend Forward Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Trend Forward Capital, startups are often financed by Relay Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Horizons Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kensington Capital Partners Limited, innogy Ventures, Tiger Global Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Triphammer Ventures, Total Access Fund, TELUS Ventures.

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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Affectiva, Veem, MOJIO. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are iOS, Fitness.

We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Cybersecurity
Stage focus
GeneralistPre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B Show 1 more
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
3.86
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Software (14)
  • Financial Services (6)
  • FinTech (6)
  • Other Financial Services (5)
  • Payments (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (22)
  • Canada (5)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
424M
Group Appearance index
0.74
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.17

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Babbly 31 Mar 2022 Software, Artificial Intelligence Seed 2M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada
openigloo 24 Jun 2021 Software, Mobile Apps, Consumer Applications, Consumer Reviews Seed United States, New York, New York

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