Zephyr Management

Total investments

30

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

1.03

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsInfrastructureSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyFinanceHigher EducationEducationConstructionConsulting

Summary

Zephyr Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Varthana, Shortlist, e2E RAIL. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Search Engine. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Zephyr Management is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Zephyr Management performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

The fund was created by Thomas Barry. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Zephyr Management, startups are often financed by Alteria Capital, Alchemist Accelerator, Village Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are University Ventures, Omidyar Network, Accel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Alteria Capital, Accel, Zephyr Acorn.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
7
Exits
3
Rounds per year
1.03
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (7)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Education (5)
  • Finance (4)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • India (13)
  • Singapore (1)
  • United States (3)
  • China (1)
  • Kenya (7)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.53
Avg. company exit year
17
Avg. multiplicator
1.58
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arifu 01 Jan 2021 Software, Information Technology, Education Seed Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Blink 01 Mar 2015 Real Time, Content, News, Video, Photography, Search Engine, Location Based Services Seed 1M United States, New York

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