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WestWave Capital

Founders Warren Weiss

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Total investments 101
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 50
Rounds per year 14.43
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 6
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cyber Security
  • SaaS
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Redwood City. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this WestWave Capital performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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 some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Bitcoin, Network Security. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight OverWatchID, Theta Lake, MistNet.ai.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the WestWave Capital, startups are often financed by Terry Eger, Qualcomm Ventures, Copper River Advisors. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Neotribe Ventures, security company, Zetta Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Xplorer Capital, True Ventures, Redpoint.

The current fund was established by Warren Weiss. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BINARLY

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Security
Data Center
Enterprise
$10M26 Mar 2024 Pasadena, California, United States

appCD

$6M05 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

SigScalr

Information Technology
Software
$1M20 Feb 2024 Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

unSkript, Inc

$3M24 Jan 2024 Los Altos Hills, California, United States

Lative

Business Development
Sales
Sales Automation
$3M01 Jan 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Fractl

$1M11 Nov 2023 -

Espresa

Employee Benefits
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$23M31 Oct 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Discern Security

Computer
Cyber Security
Network Security
$3M19 Sep 2023 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Koop Technologies

Autonomous Vehicles
Big Data
Information Technology
Insurance
Software
$4M11 Jul 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
News
Koop Technologies Raises $2.5M in Seed Funding

– Koop Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based insurance technology startup specializing in autonomous vehicle and robotics risks, raised $2.5M in seed funding.
– The round was led by Ubiquity Ventures, out of Palo Alto, CA, along with Bee Partners, Sure Ventures, WestWave Capital, and a number of strategic angel investors.
– The company intends to use the funds to bring its data-driven insurance platform to more customers in the autonomous vehicle and robotics industries.

prezent.ai Raises $4.3M in Seed Funding

– prezent.ai is a Los Altos, Calif.-based presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams.
– The company raised $4.3m in seed funding.
– Backers included Emergent Ventures (San Mateo, CA), WestWave Capital (Redwood City, CA), Patrick Lee (co-founder of Rotten Tomatoes) and Shaker Sadasivam (former CEO of SunEdison).
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s operations and business reach.

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Total investments 101
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 14.43
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.54

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BINARLY

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Security
Data Center
Enterprise
$10M26 Mar 2024 Pasadena, California, United States

appCD

$6M05 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

SigScalr

Information Technology
Software
$1M20 Feb 2024 Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

unSkript, Inc

$3M24 Jan 2024 Los Altos Hills, California, United States

Lative

Business Development
Sales
Sales Automation
$3M01 Jan 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Fractl

$1M11 Nov 2023 -

Espresa

Employee Benefits
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$23M31 Oct 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Discern Security

Computer
Cyber Security
Network Security
$3M19 Sep 2023 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Koop Technologies

Autonomous Vehicles
Big Data
Information Technology
Insurance
Software
$4M11 Jul 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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