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Maveron

Founders Dan Levitan Howard Schultz

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Total investments 297
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 192
Rounds per year 11.88
Lead investments 51
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 49
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
  • Retail
Summary

In 1998 was created Maveron, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Maveron performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Maveron the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The real fund results show that this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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 fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Retail. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Groupon, zulily, Zume Pizza Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Dan Levitan, Howard Schultz. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Maveron, startups are often financed by Oak Investment Partners, Slow Ventures, Madrona Venture Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trilogy Equity Partners, Greycroft, Founders' Co-op. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Greycroft.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

The Cumulus Coffee Company

Coffee
Consumer
Electronics
$20M15 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Alias Technologies

Consulting
Financial Services
$3M31 Aug 2023 Houston, Texas, United States

Upwage

$7M01 Jul 2023 -

Caraway

Health Care
$16M20 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Proxima

Consumer Software
Video Games
$1M30 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Bend Health

Health Care
$27M23 Mar 2023 -

Cap Hill Brands

B2C
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$100M08 Sep 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Roon

$7M12 Aug 2022 -

Tomorrow Farms

Food and Beverage
Sustainability
$8M06 May 2022 New York, New York, United States
News
AllStripes Announces $50 Million Series B Financing to Advance Global Rare Disease Research

– AllStripes, a healthcare technology company dedicated to unlocking treatments for people affected by rare diseases, announced the closing of a $50 million Series B financing round.
– The financing was led by Lux Capital, a current investor, joined by JAZZ Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Medidata Solutions (a Dassault Systèmes company), McKesson Ventures, and Maveron, along with angel investors including Arif Nathoo, CEO of Komodo Health, and Leila Zegna, Director of the Kabuki Syndrome Foundation.

BookClub checks out a shiny new $20 million Series A

– BookClub, a startup that brings author-led book clubs to readers, raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Signal Peak Ventures and joined by GSV Ventures, Maveron, Backstage Capital​ and Pelion Venture Partners​.
– Other investors include the founders of MasterClass and Goodreads.

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Total investments 297
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 11.88
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 51
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 49
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

The Cumulus Coffee Company

Coffee
Consumer
Electronics
$20M15 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Alias Technologies

Consulting
Financial Services
$3M31 Aug 2023 Houston, Texas, United States

Upwage

$7M01 Jul 2023 -

Caraway

Health Care
$16M20 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Proxima

Consumer Software
Video Games
$1M30 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Bend Health

Health Care
$27M23 Mar 2023 -

Cap Hill Brands

B2C
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$100M08 Sep 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Roon

$7M12 Aug 2022 -

Tomorrow Farms

Food and Beverage
Sustainability
$8M06 May 2022 New York, New York, United States
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