Volition Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

77

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

57

Rounds per year

5.50

Lead investments

32

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Supply Chain ManagementSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyB2BSaaSCyber SecurityMarketing

Summary

Volition Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Volition Capital, startups are often financed by Fidelity Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, SAP. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sapphire Ventures, SAP, Intel Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chewy, iPipeline, Cortera. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, Sean Cantwell. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 41 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Volition Capital works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/Retail
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
5M — 50M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 675000000
Fund raised date
2023-01-26

Analytics

Total investments
77
Lead investments
32
Exits
15
Rounds per year
5.50
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Software (36)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • SaaS (17)
  • Financial Services (10)
  • Cyber Security (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (70)
  • Canada (5)
  • United Kingdom (2)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
271M
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
10.59
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ensighten 12 Sep 2012 Enterprise Software, Cyber Security, Marketing, Privacy, Compliance Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California
SUPER73 17 Feb 2021 Transportation, Retail, Travel, Electric Vehicle Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, Irvine

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