Upstage Ventures

Total investments

35

Average round size

851K

Portfolio companies

28

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

10

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileSaaSAppsMobile AppsSportsMarket ResearchAdvertising

Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Ardsley.

This organization was formed by Mark Wachen. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Stella Connect, Braavo Capital, Bedly 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.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Upstage Ventures, startups are often financed by YEI Innovation Fund, MassChallenge, Grace Beauty Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zelkova Ventures, Stage One Capital, SV Angel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mark Wachen, RRE Ventures, Gotham Ventures.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Upstage Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
35
Lead investments
0
Exits
10
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (9)
  • Mobile Apps (6)
  • Sports (6)
  • Internet (6)
  • Software (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (35)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
39M
Group Appearance index
0.54
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.86
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Musaffa 24 Dec 2022 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Trading Platform Seed 360K United States, New Jersey, Lyndhurst
Ordergroove 26 Feb 2010 E-Commerce, B2B, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Subscription Service Early Stage Venture United States, New York, New York
TransfrVR 29 May 2018 Virtual Reality Seed 0 United States, New York
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