The W Fund
Venture Capital
Active
Seattle, United States
17
5M
12
1
0.24
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Seattle.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AnswerDash, CSATS, Cyrus Biotechnology. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Therapeutics, Medical Device.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the W Fund, startups are often financed by Dolby Family Ventures, Washington Research Foundation., WINGS. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Washington Research Foundation., Voyager Capital, Summit Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Washington Research Foundation., Voyager Capital, Trinity Ventures.
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. This W Fund works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- Up to 500K
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 17
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 3
- Follow on index
- 0.24
- Investments by industry
- Software (5)
- Biotechnology (5)
- Information Technology (3)
- Nutrition (3)
- Health Care (3) Show 23 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (14)
- Ghana (1)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 916K
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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AnswerDash | 02 Dec 2013 | Software, Information Technology, CRM, Natural Language Processing, Customer Service | Early Stage Venture | 2M | United States, Washington, Seattle |
Harbor BioSciences | 12 Aug 2011 | Biotechnology, Nutraceutical | Seed | 2M | United States, California, San Diego |
Jetstream Africa | 10 Jan 2023 | Logistics | Seed | 13M | Greater Accra Region, Accra, Ghana |
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