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Pelion Venture Partners

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Total investments 204
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 116
Rounds per year 5.37
Lead investments 30
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 39
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Analytics
  • SaaS
Summary

Pelion Venture Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1986. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Salt Lake City.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Pelion Venture Partners performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Pelion Venture Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Cloud Computing, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Riverbed Technology, Fusion-io, CloudFlare The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Pelion Venture Partners, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, BYU Cougar Capital, Peak Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Accel, Peak Ventures, Mayfield Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BYU Cougar Capital, Peterson Ventures, Accel.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$21M11 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Nursa

Health Care
Mobile Apps
Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$80M22 Aug 2023 Bountiful, Utah, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$35M26 Jul 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Otto

Credit Cards
FinTech
$24M03 Apr 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Britive

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Identity Management
Software
$20M23 Mar 2023 Glendale, California, United States

Monarx, Inc.

Cloud Security
CMS
Cyber Security
Network Security
SaaS
Software
Web Hosting
$6M23 Feb 2023 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Otto

Credit Cards
FinTech
$24M20 Feb 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$13M15 Dec 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Cacheflow

B2B
FinTech
SaaS
$10M06 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Aumni Raises $50M in Series B Funding

– Aumni is a Salt Lake City UT-based investment analytics platform.
– Company raised $50m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by J.P. Morgan with participation from Pelion Venture Partners, WndrCo, Citadel Securities, Invesco Private Capital, Vanderbilt University and Kera Capital.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s offering to limited partners, law firms and company founders.

Canopy Raises $11M in New Funding Round

– Canopy announced it has received $11m in new funding from investors including Ankona Capital.
– The round includes new investor Ankona Capital as well as existing investors NewView Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Tenaya Capital among others.
– This new capital will be used to continue to build the accounting industry’s first cloud-first, mobile, modern practice suite.
– Canopy is investing in the development of its product in order to be at the forefront of this trend, identifying pain points and delivering value to customers while developing the innovative solutions accounting professionals need to operate successfully.
– The accounting industry continues to undergo a shift towards cloud-based solutions built with both the accountant and the accountant’s client in mind – a trend that was accelerated by the pandemic.

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Total investments 204
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 5.37
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 30
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 39
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$21M11 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Nursa

Health Care
Mobile Apps
Recruiting
Staffing Agency
$80M22 Aug 2023 Bountiful, Utah, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$35M26 Jul 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Otto

Credit Cards
FinTech
$24M03 Apr 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Britive

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Identity Management
Software
$20M23 Mar 2023 Glendale, California, United States

Monarx, Inc.

Cloud Security
CMS
Cyber Security
Network Security
SaaS
Software
Web Hosting
$6M23 Feb 2023 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Otto

Credit Cards
FinTech
$24M20 Feb 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$13M15 Dec 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Cacheflow

B2B
FinTech
SaaS
$10M06 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States
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