Vast Ventures

Summary

Vast Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The current fund was established by Doug Chertok. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Vast Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, BDMI, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Lerer Hippeau, First Round Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Founders Fund.

This Vast Ventures works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zocdoc, Ginkgo BioWorks, Sweetgreen Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, SaaS. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.