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Quest Venture Partners

Founders Andrew Ogawa Maarten 't Hooft Marcus Ogawa

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Total investments 107
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 65
Rounds per year 6.69
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 18
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • E-Commerce
  • Advertising
  • Analytics
Summary

Quest Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ice, Tripping.com, dataPlor. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Quest Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, DFJ, Draper Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trinity Ventures, Benchmark, Samsung Ventures.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The average startup value when the investment from Quest Venture Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Quest Venture Partners works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Switchboard Software

Analytics
Cloud Data Services
Digital Media
$7M27 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Champions Round

Android
Application Software
Digital Entertainment
Entertainment Software
eSports
Fantasy Sports
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Online Games
Sports
Video Games
$7M27 Feb 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Simple HealthKit

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$8M06 Feb 2023 Fremont, California, United States

GameOn Technology

Digital Media
Messaging
Social Media
Sports
$35M06 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

GameOn Technology

Digital Media
Messaging
Social Media
Sports
$35M01 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Femtosense

Information Technology
Software
$8M28 Sep 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

Avium

Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
$2M22 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Pontoro

Financial Services
FinTech
$6M06 Dec 2021 Mountain View, California, United States

Groove

Direct Sales
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$45M14 Oct 2021 San Francisco, California, United States
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Automation-driven sales engagement platform Groove nabs $45M

– Groove, an automation-driven sales engagement platform, announced that it closed a $45 million series B round led by Viking Global Investors with participation from Capital One Ventures, Level Equity, Quest Venture Partners, and Uncork Capital.
– The funds bring the company’s total raised to over $57 million to date, which cofounder and CEO Chris Rothstein says will be put toward product development and international workforce growth.
– It’s Groove’s assertion that the pandemic-fueled shift to digital selling is driving the convergence of sales engagement and revenue operations.
– But digital selling has also exposed a weakness in some companies’ customer relationship management (CRM) software: a lack of adoption.

Iris.TV Raises $18M in Series B Funding

– Iris.tv is a video data platform based in Los Angeles and NYC.
– The company raised $18m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Intel Capital with participation from WISE Ventures, Quest Venture Partners, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mike Baker, founder, CEO of dataxu (acquired by Roku in 2019), Mike Shehan, founder, CEO of video advertising platform SpotX (merging with Magnite in 2021), and Ari Paparo, CEO of ad tech innovator Beeswax (acquired by Comcast in 2020).
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s growth and development of new products.

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Total investments 107
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 6.69
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Switchboard Software

Analytics
Cloud Data Services
Digital Media
$7M27 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Champions Round

Android
Application Software
Digital Entertainment
Entertainment Software
eSports
Fantasy Sports
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Online Games
Sports
Video Games
$7M27 Feb 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Simple HealthKit

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$8M06 Feb 2023 Fremont, California, United States

GameOn Technology

Digital Media
Messaging
Social Media
Sports
$35M06 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

GameOn Technology

Digital Media
Messaging
Social Media
Sports
$35M01 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Femtosense

Information Technology
Software
$8M28 Sep 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

Avium

Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
$2M22 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Pontoro

Financial Services
FinTech
$6M06 Dec 2021 Mountain View, California, United States

Groove

Direct Sales
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$45M14 Oct 2021 San Francisco, California, United States
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