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Vayner/RSE

Founders AJ Vaynerchuk Gary Vaynerchuk Matt Higgins

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Total investments 80
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$102M
Portfolio companies 69
Rounds per year 8.00
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 27
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Mobile
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Social Media
Summary

Vayner/RSE is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coinbase, Canva, Namely. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, SaaS. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Vayner/RSE works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Vayner/RSE is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Vayner/RSE, startups are often financed by Techstars, Lerer Hippeau, Red Swan Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Gary Vaynerchuk, BoxGroup. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lerer Hippeau, Slow Ventures, RRE Ventures.

The fund was created by AJ Vaynerchuk, Gary Vaynerchuk, Matt Higgins. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lockchain.ai

$4M01 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Danvas

B2C
$7M14 Dec 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Nameless

Construction
Information Services
Internet
Software
$15M28 Oct 2021 Sheridan, Wyoming, United States

Immutable

Internet
$59M14 Sep 2021 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mythical Games

Blockchain
Gaming
Video Games
$75M09 Jun 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Pillow

Hospitality
Internet
Property Management
Real Estate
$13M21 Jun 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Fond

Employee Benefits
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
Subscription Service
$11M28 Sep 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Stem Disintermedia

Accounting
FinTech
Internet
Music
Software
Video
$4M26 Apr 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Mindshow

Internet
Software
Virtual Reality
$6M23 Mar 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 80
Average round size 102M
Rounds per year 8.00
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 27
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lockchain.ai

$4M01 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Danvas

B2C
$7M14 Dec 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Nameless

Construction
Information Services
Internet
Software
$15M28 Oct 2021 Sheridan, Wyoming, United States

Immutable

Internet
$59M14 Sep 2021 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mythical Games

Blockchain
Gaming
Video Games
$75M09 Jun 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Pillow

Hospitality
Internet
Property Management
Real Estate
$13M21 Jun 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Fond

Employee Benefits
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
Subscription Service
$11M28 Sep 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Stem Disintermedia

Accounting
FinTech
Internet
Music
Software
Video
$4M26 Apr 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

Mindshow

Internet
Software
Virtual Reality
$6M23 Mar 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States
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