W Capital Partners

Total investments

50

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

2.27

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

27

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSManufacturingSecurityMarketingSocial MediaAdvertising

Summary

W Capital Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. 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.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pandora, MINDBODY, FreshDirect. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Computer. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the W Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Selby Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, Selby Venture Partners, Lehman Brothers. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, GGV Capital, Walden Venture Capital.

The high activity for fund was in 2009. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this W Capital Partners works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
50
Lead investments
10
Exits
27
Rounds per year
2.27
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Software (21)
  • Marketing (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Advertising (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • China (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2011
Number of Unicorns
7
Number of Decacorns
7

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
388M
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
4.15
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Inspirato 23 Sep 2014 Lifestyle, Travel, Resorts Late Stage Venture 20M United States, Colorado, Denver

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