WME Ventures
16
16M
11
2.00
0.31
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
WME Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.
The fund was created by Beth Ferreira.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the WME Ventures, startups are often financed by General Catalyst, Bullish, Lerer Hippeau. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lerer Hippeau, Yan-David Erlich, True Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), General Catalyst, Tiger Global Management.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Warby Parker, Glossier, Gusto The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Food and Beverage. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The top activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from WME Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 16
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 2.00
- Follow on index
- 0.31
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (5)
- Fashion (4)
- Food and Beverage (3)
- Apps (3)
- Video Games (2) Show 26 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (16)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 5
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.94
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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