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RPS Ventures

Founders Samantha Wang

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$78M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.70
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Retail
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Insurance
Summary

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the RPS Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, SAIF Partners, Venture Highway. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SAIF Partners, Venture Highway, Shunwei Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Facebook, Venture Highway, Shunwei Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Insurance, Social Media. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pavilion Data Systems, Tala, Meesho.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. When the investment is from RPS Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Blumira

Computer
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Network Security
$15M07 Jun 2023 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Emotive

B2B
B2C
Marketing Automation
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
$20M01 Mar 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Arturo

Artificial Intelligence
Insurance
Machine Learning
Mobile
Predictive Analytics
Property Management
Publishing
Real Estate Investment
Video
$25M27 Apr 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Paack

Delivery
Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Logistics
Retail
Same Day Delivery
$53M16 Nov 2020 Catalonia

Molekule

Health Care
Product Design
Wellness
$58M25 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Data Center
Data Storage
Data Visualization
Database
Hardware
Information Technology
Software
$25M13 Aug 2019 San Jose, California, United States

Paack

Delivery
Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Logistics
Retail
Same Day Delivery
$20M15 Jul 2019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Acko General Insurance

Auto Insurance
Health Insurance
Insurance
InsurTech
$65M13 Mar 2019 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Meesho

E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Internet
Mobile Apps
Retail
Social Media
$50M05 Nov 2018 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
News
Versa Networks Secures $84M in Series D Funding to Accelerate SASE Growth

– Versa Networks, the leader in SASE, announced that it has raised $84m in a Series D funding round, bringing the company’s total amount raised in funding to $196m.
– The funding round was co-led by investors Princeville Capital and RPS Ventures, with additional participation from existing investors, including Sequoia Capital.
– This new round of funding will enable Versa to introduce new go-to-market strategies, launch new sales and partner enablement initiatives, and address new markets to further cement its leadership position in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market.
– According to Gartner, the SASE market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 42%, reaching almost $11bn, with at least 40% of enterprises having SASE adoption strategies in place by 2024.

MasterClass Raises $225M in Series F Funding

– MasterClass, a San Francisco, CA-based streaming platform for anyone to learn from the best professionals in their specific field, raised $225m in Series F funding.
– The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from new investors Baillie Gifford, Balyasny Asset Management and Eldridge together with existing investors IVP, Javelin, NEA and Owl Ventures, and 01 Advisors, Atomico, Bonnier, Cleo Capital, Dan Capital, NewView Capital, NextEquity Partners, Outlier Ventures, Powerhouse Capital, RPS Ventures, Family Office of Ronald Lauder and UTA.

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Total investments 17
Average round size 78M
Rounds per year 1.70
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.29
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Blumira

Computer
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Network Security
$15M07 Jun 2023 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Emotive

B2B
B2C
Marketing Automation
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
$20M01 Mar 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Arturo

Artificial Intelligence
Insurance
Machine Learning
Mobile
Predictive Analytics
Property Management
Publishing
Real Estate Investment
Video
$25M27 Apr 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Paack

Delivery
Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Logistics
Retail
Same Day Delivery
$53M16 Nov 2020 Catalonia

Molekule

Health Care
Product Design
Wellness
$58M25 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Data Center
Data Storage
Data Visualization
Database
Hardware
Information Technology
Software
$25M13 Aug 2019 San Jose, California, United States

Paack

Delivery
Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Logistics
Retail
Same Day Delivery
$20M15 Jul 2019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Acko General Insurance

Auto Insurance
Health Insurance
Insurance
InsurTech
$65M13 Mar 2019 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Meesho

E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Internet
Mobile Apps
Retail
Social Media
$50M05 Nov 2018 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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