Archer Venture Capital

What is Archer Venture Capital?

Archer Venture Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California, known for their specialization in direct secondary investments, primary growth equity, and reserve follow-on capital to support the companies in their portfolio. They focus on providing sector expertise and liquidity solutions to shareholders of high-growth private companies.

They have a rich history of involvement in integral roles within the companies they invest in, boasting over 75 years of combined experience among their partners who have previously served as Founders, Chairs, and CEOs.

This extensive experience underpins their strategic and thoughtful approach to investment, particularly through VC secondaries, which allows them to back companies at key valuation inflection points. With over 48 successful exits and substantial exit value generated, Archer Venture Capital aims to be a founder-focused secondary investor offering both capital investment capabilities and team building expertise that aligns stakeholder goals, reduces friction, and unlocks value.

Their active secondary approach emphasizes providing liquidity, fresh capital, and sector expertise to promote growth and mitigate risks, empowering startups to achieve meaningful exits for founders, shareholders, and employees. Archer Venture Capital invests in industries such as software (web marketplace SaaS, etc.), education, business solutions, sales and marketing, advertising, analytics, and cloud services and infrastructure. Their investment size ranges from $5 million to $25 million, with a sweet spot of $15 million, and they typically invest in companies from seed stage to later stages, including Series B.

What they say:

We also serve as an advisory platform for entrepreneurs.

What we look for: We invest in promising startups.