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Category Ventures vs Friends & Family Capital

Category Ventures lists 27 portfolio companies and has joined 4 funding rounds; Friends & Family Capital lists 27 companies and has joined 11 rounds. Category Ventures comes in most often at Seed (75% of its entries), Friends & Family Capital comes in most often at Series B (46% of its entries). 3 companies are on both portfolios, among them Airtable, Gusto and Warp.

27Portfolio companies27
4Funding rounds joined11
3Rounds led2
3Rounds, last 12 months8
$5M to $20MTypical round it comes in at$20M to $100M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
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Category Ventures and Friends & Family Capital, head to head
Category VenturesFriends & Family Capital
Portfolio companies2727
Funding rounds joined411
Rounds led32
Rounds, last 12 months38
Typical round it comes in at$5M to $20M$20M to $100M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed75%0%
Series A25%36%
Series B0%46%
Growth0%18%

Category VenturesFriends & Family Capital

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Entry stages of Category Ventures and Friends & Family Capital, share of entries
Category VenturesFriends & Family Capital
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed75%0%
Series A25%36%
Series B0%46%
Growth0%18%

Themes

share of checked companies
AI & Machine Learning35%42%
Enterprise Software22%12%
Cybersecurity6%10%
Industrial & Manufacturing4%10%
Fintech8%8%
Human Resources4%0%

Category VenturesFriends & Family Capital

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Themes of Category Ventures and Friends & Family Capital, share of checked companies
Category VenturesFriends & Family Capital
AI & Machine Learning35%42%
Enterprise Software22%12%
Cybersecurity6%10%
Industrial & Manufacturing4%10%
Fintech8%8%
Human Resources4%0%

Companies both back

3

Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded

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GET /v1/firms/categoryvc.com/coinvestors
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