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Visa

Founders Dee Hock

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Total investments 109
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$55M
Portfolio companies 95
Rounds per year 1.65
Lead investments 20
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 18
Key employees 9

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Payments
  • Finance
  • Mobile Payments
Summary

In 1958 was created Visa, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Payments, SaaS. 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 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stripe, DocuSign, Ariba.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Visa, startups are often financed by Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CommerzVentures GmbH. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Capital, Goldman Sachs.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Visa is more than 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Visa performs on 8 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Dee Hock. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Agrotoken

Agriculture
AgTech
Cryptocurrency
FinTech
Trading Platform
$12M08 Nov 2023 Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina

Finerio

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
$6M23 Oct 2023 -

Plan A

GreenTech
Insurance
Social Impact
$27M19 Sep 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thunes

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$72M17 Jul 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Tuma

Business Development
Customer Service
Payments
$500K22 Jun 2023 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Tarabut Gateway

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$32M03 May 2023 Manama, Capital Governorate, Bahrain

Car IQ

Automotive
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M07 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Moov

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$45M31 Jan 2023 Golden, Colorado, United States

YAP

Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$4M26 Sep 2022 Alandur, Tamil Nadu, India
News
Nium crosses $1B valuation with $200M Riverwood Capital-led round

– B2B payments platform Nium raised $200m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by Riverwood Capital and joined by Temasek, Visa, Vertex Ventures, Atinum Capital, Beacon Venture Capital and Rocket Capital Investment.
– Including the new funding, Nium has raised $300m to date.

Hive Announces Series D Funding to Unlock the Next Wave of Intelligent Automation with AI

– Hive, the leading provider of cloud-based enterprise AI solutions to power the next wave of intelligent automation, announced $85 million in new funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $121 million. The funding values the company at $2 billion.
Glynn Capital led the $50 million Series D round, with participation from returning investors including General Catalyst, Tomales Bay Capital, Jericho Capital, and Bain & Company, among others. This funding round doubles the company’s valuation from an earlier $35 million Series C round led by Tomales Bay Capital in 2020 that included new strategic investments from Bain & Company and Visa.

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Total investments 109
Average round size 55M
Rounds per year 1.65
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Agrotoken

Agriculture
AgTech
Cryptocurrency
FinTech
Trading Platform
$12M08 Nov 2023 Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina

Finerio

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
$6M23 Oct 2023 -

Plan A

GreenTech
Insurance
Social Impact
$27M19 Sep 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thunes

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$72M17 Jul 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Tuma

Business Development
Customer Service
Payments
$500K22 Jun 2023 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Tarabut Gateway

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$32M03 May 2023 Manama, Capital Governorate, Bahrain

Car IQ

Automotive
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M07 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Moov

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$45M31 Jan 2023 Golden, Colorado, United States

YAP

Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$4M26 Sep 2022 Alandur, Tamil Nadu, India
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