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Volition Capital

Founders Andy Flaster Larry Cheng Rob Ketterson Roger Hurwitz Sean Cantwell

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Total investments 74
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$34M
Portfolio companies 56
Rounds per year 5.29
Lead investments 31
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 15
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Financial Services
  • Cyber Security
Summary

Volition Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Volition Capital, startups are often financed by Fidelity Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, SAP. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sapphire Ventures, SAP, Intel Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chewy, iPipeline, Cortera. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, Sean Cantwell. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 41 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Volition Capital works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HALO

$20M27 Feb 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

Relish

Apps
Cloud Computing
IaaS
Information Technology
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$10M01 Dec 2023 Beachwood, Ohio, United States

Mozaic

Content Creators
Enterprise
Financial Services
FinTech
Technical Support
$20M27 Nov 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Zenarate

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
InsurTech
Machine Learning
Software
$15M27 Jun 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

hackajob

Analytics
Application Software
Human Capital Services
Human Resources
Information Services (B2C)
Information Technology
Recruiting
Software
Staffing Agency
$25M03 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Sensible Care

Health Care
Internet
Therapeutics
$13M25 May 2022 Santa Ana, California, United States

SnapAttack

Computer
Network Security
$8M16 Nov 2021 Columbia, Maryland, United States

Black Kite

Cyber Security
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$22M13 Oct 2021 Virginia, United States

Duffl

Consumer
Food Delivery
Snack Food
$12M01 Oct 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States
News
Going after social commerce for sportspeople, Millions gets $10M

– Social commerce platform Millions.co raised $10m in funding.
– The round was led by Volition Capital and joined by other investors.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and grow its user base.
– The company is currently focused on combat sports and gyms.

OneDay Raises $19M in Series B Funding

– OneDay, a Dallas TX-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for businesses to use video to drive growth and engagement, raised $19m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Volition Capital.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth with key hires, market expansion, and continued investment in building technology.

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Total investments 74
Average round size 34M
Rounds per year 5.29
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 31
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HALO

$20M27 Feb 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

Relish

Apps
Cloud Computing
IaaS
Information Technology
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$10M01 Dec 2023 Beachwood, Ohio, United States

Mozaic

Content Creators
Enterprise
Financial Services
FinTech
Technical Support
$20M27 Nov 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Zenarate

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
InsurTech
Machine Learning
Software
$15M27 Jun 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

hackajob

Analytics
Application Software
Human Capital Services
Human Resources
Information Services (B2C)
Information Technology
Recruiting
Software
Staffing Agency
$25M03 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Sensible Care

Health Care
Internet
Therapeutics
$13M25 May 2022 Santa Ana, California, United States

SnapAttack

Computer
Network Security
$8M16 Nov 2021 Columbia, Maryland, United States

Black Kite

Cyber Security
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$22M13 Oct 2021 Virginia, United States

Duffl

Consumer
Food Delivery
Snack Food
$12M01 Oct 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States
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