Upside Partnership

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

103

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

66

Rounds per year

10.30

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareInsurance

Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Mill Valley.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Digit, Turvo, EveryTeam. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Internet. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This Upside Partnership works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Upside Partnership, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Harrison Metal. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Harrison Metal, Slow Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Harrison Metal, General Catalyst, Freestyle Capital.

The fund was created by Kent Goldman. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
103
Lead investments
0
Exits
9
Rounds per year
10.30
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (44)
  • Enterprise Software (20)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • Internet (17)
  • SaaS (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (100)
  • Canada (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
22M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.74
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lobus 29 Apr 2021 Internet, Software, FinTech, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Marketplace Seed 6M United States, New York, New York
Rewatch 26 May 2021 Software, Collaboration, Video, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, San Francisco

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