WorldQuant Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Old Greenwich, United States

Total investments

48

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

4.80

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

4

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareBig Data

Summary

WorldQuant Ventures LLC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Old Greenwich.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the WorldQuant Ventures LLC, startups are often financed by SenaHill Partners, Thayer Street Partners, Wharton Equity Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SenaHill Partners, Maryland Venture Fund, ZenStone Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SharesPost Investment Management, EquityZen, Vulcan Capital.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this WorldQuant Ventures LLC works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from WorldQuant Ventures LLC the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The fund was created by Igor Tulchinsky. The overall number of key employees were 3.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Dataminr, ClearServe, Benzinga The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Financial Services. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechClimate techDeep TechHealthcareAI/Big Data
Stage focus
GeneralistSeries ASeries BSeries CSeries D Show 1 more
Geo focus
United States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
48
Lead investments
3
Exits
4
Rounds per year
4.80
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (14)
  • Software (14)
  • Machine Learning (10)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Analytics (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (41)
  • India (3)
  • Canada (2)
  • United Kingdom (2)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
188M
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
7
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Dopple 06 Apr 2021 E-Commerce, Retail Seed 9M United States, California, San Francisco
Remesh 10 Dec 2014 Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Messaging, Business Intelligence, Market Research, Project Management, Social Media Seed 1M United States, New York, New York
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