Yes VC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

69

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

47

Rounds per year

11.50

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSAppsMobile AppsGenetics

Summary

Yes VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2018. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Yes VC, startups are often financed by Rubicon Venture Capital, Fueled, Boldstart Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are William Mougayar, Union Square Ventures, Tyler Gaffney. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Threshold, Sequoia Capital, Polychain.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Public Goods, Kids on 45th, Spell. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite 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 E-Commerce, Machine Learning.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Yes VC is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

The current fund was established by Caterina Fake, Jyri Engestrom. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataAerospaceClimate techConsumer/RetailCloud/Infrastructure Show 3 more
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
11.50
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • E-Commerce (7)
  • Internet (6)
  • Mobile Apps (6)
  • Apps (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (43)
  • India (2)
  • Canada (2)
  • Germany (2)
  • Finland (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
205M
Group Appearance index
0.57
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Gameto 29 May 2024 Biotechnology, Genetics, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 33M United States, New York, New York
HelixNano 21 Jul 2021 Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Genetics Early Stage Venture United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

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