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Forerunner Ventures

Founders Kirsten Green

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Total investments 223
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 126
Rounds per year 13.12
Lead investments 35
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 22
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Retail
  • Fashion
  • Health Care
  • Consumer Goods
Summary

Forerunner Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2009. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

This Forerunner Ventures works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Forerunner Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The current fund was established by Kirsten Green. The overall number of key employees were 8.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Jet.com, Chime, Glossier. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Internet.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Forerunner Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, Bullish.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TravelJoy

Professional Services
Social Network
Travel
$10M01 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Craftwork

Consumer Software
Home Services
$6M17 Nov 2023 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Duckbill

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$25M13 Sep 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

ProPhone

Internet
Mobile Apps
Software
Unified Communications
$12M31 Jul 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boombox

Music
Software
$7M23 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Jump

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Information Services
Software
$30M01 Mar 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Fora

Software
Travel
Travel Agency
$13M11 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

Eclipse Foods

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
$40M28 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Wonder

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Restaurants
$350M14 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States
News
Humane Raises $100M in Series B Funding

– Humane, Inc. from San Francisco develops personal technology for the intelligence age.
– Company raised $100m in Series B funding round.
– The round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from SoftBank Group, BOND, Forerunner Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, Kindred Ventures, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Valia Ventures, NEXT VENTŪRES, Plexo Capital and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
– The new investment will be aimed at scaling operations.

Glossier Inc. Raises $80 Million

– Glossier Inc. announced that it has raised $80m in Series E funding.
Lone Pine Capital led the round, along with participation from existing investors Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, IVP, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital.
– The fully direct to consumer business will continue to scale its online and offline channels globally as it builds the world’s #1 destination for beauty discovery.
– Glossier was founded in 2014 and is on a mission to inspire everyone to find joy and confidence in their personal beauty style.
– The company has more than 5m customers globally and has become a household name across generations, especially with Gen Z and Millennials; two out of every five women between the ages of 18 and 34 in the United States have heard of Glossier.

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Total investments 223
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 13.12
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 35
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 22
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TravelJoy

Professional Services
Social Network
Travel
$10M01 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Craftwork

Consumer Software
Home Services
$6M17 Nov 2023 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Duckbill

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$25M13 Sep 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

ProPhone

Internet
Mobile Apps
Software
Unified Communications
$12M31 Jul 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boombox

Music
Software
$7M23 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Jump

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Information Services
Software
$30M01 Mar 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Fora

Software
Travel
Travel Agency
$13M11 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

Eclipse Foods

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
$40M28 Jun 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Wonder

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Restaurants
$350M14 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States
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