Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

PayPal Ventures

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 116
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$58M
Portfolio companies 73
Rounds per year 5.27
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 8
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Software
  • Finance
  • E-Commerce
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Jose. The venture was found in North America in United States. PayPal Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

The real fund results show that this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from PayPal Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this PayPal Ventures performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the PayPal Ventures, startups are often financed by Data Collective DCVC, btov Partners, Ribbit Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goodwater Capital, Enterprise Ireland, Bessemer Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goodwater Capital, Ribbit Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cyber Security, SaaS. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Raisin, PPRO Group, Monese For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of PayPal Ventures:
Typical Co-investors
PayPal Ventures is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after PayPal Ventures:

Look at other 50 related and similar funds Collapse list
Fund NameLocation
Clarity Partners Beverly Hills, California, United States
Corus Entertainment Canada, Ontario, Toronto
F7 Ventures California, San Francisco, United States
Goldbridge Capital China, Hohhot, Nei Mongol
Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Longnan County Longyin Trade China, Ganzhou, Jiangxi
MM Grupp Estonia, Harjumaa, Tallinn
Nanjing Junyang Touzi China, Jiangsu, Nanjing
Qualcomm Atheros California, Santa Clara, United States
Singapore Tourism Accelerator Central, Central Region, Singapore

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Qoala

Insurance
InsurTech
Internet of Things
$49M27 Mar 2024 Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

NX Technologies

$25M21 Mar 2024 Ulsan, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea

bezahl

Financial Services
Mobile Payments
Payments
$25M20 Mar 2024 Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Rasa

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Assistant
$30M14 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Seal Security

Computer
Information Technology
Network Security
Supply Chain Management
$7M13 Feb 2024 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Prometeo

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$13M12 Jan 2024 Gualeguaychu, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Mine

Big Data
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Internet
Mobile Apps
Network Security
Privacy
Risk Management
Software
$30M04 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Stitch

Financial Services
FinTech
$25M03 Oct 2023 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Anzu.io

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Augmented Reality
Brand Marketing
eSports
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$28M27 Jun 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
News
Oyster Announces New Funding

– Oyster, the company that makes hiring talented people around the world compliant, human, and delightful.
– Company has announced investments from PayPal Ventures and HR Tech Investments, an affiliate of Indeed.

Cart.com Raises $98M in Series B Funding

– Cart.com from Houston TX provides ecommerce solutions to help businesses scale online.
– The company closed $98M Series B funding round.
Oak HC/FT led the round, with participation from PayPal Ventures, Clearco, Raven One Ventures, G9 Ventures and prior investors Mercury Fund, Moonshots Capital, Valedor Partners, Arsenal Growth, as well as Sebastian Rymarz, CEO of Heyday, Phillip Krim, CEO of Casper, as well as executives at Discover Financial, Robinhood, Blinds.com and Uber.
– The company intends to use the funds to further strengthen its ecommerce-as-a-Service (ECaaS) integrated platform and continue acquiring solution providers.

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent PayPal Ventures?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 116
Average round size 58M
Rounds per year 5.27
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Qoala

Insurance
InsurTech
Internet of Things
$49M27 Mar 2024 Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

NX Technologies

$25M21 Mar 2024 Ulsan, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea

bezahl

Financial Services
Mobile Payments
Payments
$25M20 Mar 2024 Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Rasa

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Assistant
$30M14 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Seal Security

Computer
Information Technology
Network Security
Supply Chain Management
$7M13 Feb 2024 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Prometeo

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$13M12 Jan 2024 Gualeguaychu, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Mine

Big Data
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Internet
Mobile Apps
Network Security
Privacy
Risk Management
Software
$30M04 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Stitch

Financial Services
FinTech
$25M03 Oct 2023 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Anzu.io

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Augmented Reality
Brand Marketing
eSports
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$28M27 Jun 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: