Zelkova Ventures

Summary

In 2007 was created Zelkova Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Zelkova Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2011. This Zelkova Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Finance, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Livefyre, FullContact, Kohort.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Zelkova Ventures, startups are often financed by Right Side Capital Management, Techstars New York City Accelerator, ff Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ff Venture Capital, Uncork Capital, Walter Winshall. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gotham Ventures, Techstars, RRE Ventures.

The current fund was established by Jay Levy, Larry Scheinfeld. The overall number of key employees were 2.