Investments
7Portfolio Exits
1Funds
1Partners & Customers
1About ValueStream
ValueStream is a New York City-based venture capital firm specializing in financial technology (FinTech) and other enterprise technologies with significant revenue opportunities in the Financial Services industry. ValueStream's Development Lab is a unique accelerator program purpose built for accelerating the adoption of FinTech products.
ValueStream Headquarter Location
54 West 40th Street
New York, New York, 10018,
United States
646-741-4784
Latest ValueStream News
Mar 23, 2021
User Interviews , the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator-backed company that has built a CRM for product developers to get user feedback, has closed on a $10 million Series A round. The financing was led by Teamworthy Ventures, with participation from Las Olas, Accomplice, FJ Labs, ERA, Trestle Partners and ValueStream. The company, cofounded by Basel Fakhoury , was created out of failure, in some ways. Originally, the User Interviews team started with a project called Mobile Suites, an amenities logistics platform for hotels. It was a dud, and the team — Basel Fakhoury, Dennis Meng and Bob Saris — decided to do more user research before determining their next product. In trying to collect that research, they stumbled upon a huge problem. It often takes companies weeks, if not months, to conduct a study around user research. The company decided to build out a platform that would procure subjects for research quickly and effectively, using an algorithm to pair qualified, engaged testers with the client. The product became Recruit, and ran on an a la carte model. To complement Recruit, the team also launched Research Hub, which is a CRM tool for all the testing methodologies used with actual users. To be clear, User Interviews doesn’t run the surveys or A/B tests themselves, but rather helps companies manage the frequency and data of those tests, not unlike what Salesforce does for sales people. Recently, User Interviews added a subscription layer to its product, allowing companies to purchase access to the software on an annual basis, rather than on a usage basis. Fakhoury says that this dual-model allows companies to try out the platform before they fully commit. Image Credits: User Interviews According to the startup, the company has experienced 140 percent annual growth, which has accelerated during the pandemic. Clients include Amazon, Microsoft, Colgate and Spotify. User Interviews plans on using the new funding to hire more in the product department, as well as build out integrations with user testing software and their clients own data management systems. Right now, the team is about 50 people, and is fully remote, with nearly half the workforce being female. Fakhoury said the biggest challenge for the company is being able to do two things at once. “We are simultaneously disrupting this legacy industry with Recruit, and we are creating a category with Research Hub,” he said. “Those are somewhat different strategies and missions and making sure that we can do both of those in tandem is one big thing for us.”
ValueStream Investments
7 Investments
ValueStream has made 7 investments. Their latest investment was in User Interviews as part of their Series A on March 3, 2021.
ValueStream Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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3/23/2021 | Series A | User Interviews | $10M | Yes | 2 | |
3/19/2018 | Seed VC | |||||
3/9/2016 | Series A | |||||
11/17/2015 | Series A | |||||
6/5/2015 | Seed VC |
Date | 3/23/2021 | 3/19/2018 | 3/9/2016 | 11/17/2015 | 6/5/2015 |
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Round | Series A | Seed VC | Series A | Series A | Seed VC |
Company | User Interviews | ||||
Amount | $10M | ||||
New? | Yes | ||||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 2 |
ValueStream Portfolio Exits
1 Portfolio Exit
ValueStream has 1 portfolio exit. Their latest portfolio exit was Sensai on October 27, 2016.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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10/27/2016 | Acquired | 1 |
Date | 10/27/2016 |
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Exit | Acquired |
Companies | |
Valuation | |
Acquirer | |
Sources | 1 |
ValueStream Fund History
1 Fund History
ValueStream has 1 fund, including Valuestream Ventures 2017 Fund.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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8/24/2017 | Valuestream Ventures 2017 Fund | $5.05M | 1 |
Closing Date | 8/24/2017 |
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Fund | Valuestream Ventures 2017 Fund |
Fund Type | |
Status | |
Amount | $5.05M |
Sources | 1 |
ValueStream Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
ValueStream has 1 strategic partners and customers. ValueStream recently partnered with Envestnet | Yodlee, Xignite, Cosaic, and NASDAQ on September 9, 2015.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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9/17/2015 | Partner | Envestnet | Yodlee, Xignite, Cosaic, and NASDAQ | United States | API Ecosystem Named #FintechRevolution Launched by Xignite. A collection of fintech players , including Nasdaq , Yodlee , Tradier and Level39 , have joined forces to create an ecosystem that connects developers with APIs . | 2 |
Date | 9/17/2015 |
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Type | Partner |
Business Partner | Envestnet | Yodlee, Xignite, Cosaic, and NASDAQ |
Country | United States |
News Snippet | API Ecosystem Named #FintechRevolution Launched by Xignite. A collection of fintech players , including Nasdaq , Yodlee , Tradier and Level39 , have joined forces to create an ecosystem that connects developers with APIs . |
Sources | 2 |
ValueStream Team
1 Team Member
ValueStream has 1 team member, including current Founder, Steve Roach.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Steve Roach | Founder | Current |
Name | Steve Roach |
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Work History | |
Title | Founder |
Status | Current |
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