Valar Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

172

Average round size

39M

Portfolio companies

78

Rounds per year

12.29

Lead investments

41

Follow on index

0.54

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechFinanceMobile AppsBankingInsuranceCryptocurrency

Summary

Valar Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Andrew McCormack, James Fitzgerald, Peter Thiel. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight N26, TransferWise, Cluno. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Banking, Insurance.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Valar Ventures, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Goodwater Capital, Square Peg Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Third Prime, Goodwater Capital, Square Peg Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goodwater Capital, Square Peg Capital, Breyer Capital.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Valar Ventures works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Valar Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Fintech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 300000000
Fund raised date
2024-05-22

Analytics

Total investments
172
Lead investments
41
Exits
10
Rounds per year
12.29
Follow on index
0.54
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (101)
  • FinTech (99)
  • Banking (42)
  • Finance (34)
  • Software (33)
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Investments by region
  • United States (74)
  • Germany (25)
  • France (9)
  • Austria (3)
  • Canada (12)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
8
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
443M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.36
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Atoa 08 Jun 2023 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Finance Seed 6M England, London, United Kingdom
Hero 20 Jun 2024 FinTech, B2B, Payments Early Stage Venture 13M Ile-de-France, Paris, France

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