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What does Felicis invest in?
Felicis invests most often at Seed and Series A (59% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI, Cybersecurity and Defense.
Felicis highlights
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71 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 59% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 18 rounds, median $4.5M
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72 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Felicis is a venture capital firm that backs iconic founders starting at Seed.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $15M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- AICybersecurityDefense
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first639 appearances
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54 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration12 named
ASAydin SenkutManaging Director - Felicis Ventures Management Company, LLCiForm ADV
DMDaria MaggioCo- Chief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
IMIva MessyChief People OfficeriForm ADV
NPNiki PezeshkiManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RQRenata QuintiniManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
RJRyan Jude ThompsonGeneral CounseliForm ADV
SPSandeep PeechuManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
SPSundeep PeechuManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
TWTeresa Wang ChanChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
VTVictoria TreygerManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
VFViviana FagaManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
WCWesley ChanManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 60 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$6.7Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
3+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Felicis Ventures Management Company, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 162301
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
42 of 55 we have independently watched raise
AaruAdaptiveAgencyArchilArmadaAstranisAttentiveAzumioBioagelabsBlommaBonobosBrevianBrightmoneyBrowser-useBunkerhillhealthChalkClassdojoClearlabsCondorsoftwareCorridorCovalentnetworksCreditkarmaCrusoeCultureampDatagrailDatologyaiDedroneDeepjudgeDeeptraceDepotDialpadDiffbotDistributedspectrumDistruDonotpayDovetailDreambaseDylibsoN8nPaloaltonetworksVarkYourcounterpartAlloyArtemissecurityAscendAtalantaAtlasBlumeC1CedaraiCellinobioCoalitionincDisconetworkRunautomatThzcorp
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed72 in all
Wedding PartyBought by InstacartUndisclosedAug 2015
AllclassesBought by NoodleUndisclosedJul 2015
BrightRollBought by Yahoo!$640MNov 2014
ArtspaceBought by Phaidon PressUndisclosedAug 2014
CardSpringBought by TwitterUndisclosedJul 2014
RelateIQBought by Salesforce$390MJul 2014
DropcamBought by Nest Labs$555MJun 2014
VotizenBought by BrigadeUndisclosedJun 2014
MatchboxBought by TargetXUndisclosedApr 2014
LovelyBought by RentPath$13MApr 2014
SolumBought by The Climate CorporationUndisclosedFeb 2014
Bump TechnologiesBought by Google$30MDec 2013
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.