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Southern Cross Venture Partners

Founders Bill Bartee Bob Christiansen Gareth Dando John Scull Larry Marshall

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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 2.83
Lead investments 15
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 12
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Analytics
Summary

In 2006 was created Southern Cross Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the North Sydney.

The current fund was established by Bill Bartee, Bob Christiansen, Gareth Dando, John Scull, Larry Marshall. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Southern Cross Venture Partners performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2012. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quantenna Communications, Wave Computing, Mantara. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Electronics.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Southern Cross Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Venrock, Talu Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Talu Ventures, Venrock, Sigma Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, Venrock, Talu Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sunman

CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
Sustainability
$45M01 Jul 2022 -

Sunman

CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
Sustainability
$12M10 Nov 2020 -

Sunman

CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
Sustainability
$5M30 Apr 2018 -

Brisbane Materials Technology

Energy
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
Solar
18 Jun 2017 Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia

Wattwatchers

Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
Solar
$2M26 Apr 2017 Australia, New South Wales

GreenSync

Battery
Electronics
Energy
Renewable Energy
$11M23 Jan 2017 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Apps
E-Commerce
FinTech
Information Technology
Mobile
Payments
Software
$5M07 Nov 2016 Australia, Victoria

Geli

Energy Storage
Software
Sustainability
$3M12 Jul 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

AutopilotHQ

Developer Tools
E-Commerce
Lead Management
Marketing
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$7M30 Jul 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 51
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 2.83
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 15
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sunman

CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
Sustainability
$45M01 Jul 2022 -

Sunman

CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
Sustainability
$12M10 Nov 2020 -

Sunman

CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
Sustainability
$5M30 Apr 2018 -

Brisbane Materials Technology

Energy
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
Solar
18 Jun 2017 Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia

Wattwatchers

Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
Solar
$2M26 Apr 2017 Australia, New South Wales

GreenSync

Battery
Electronics
Energy
Renewable Energy
$11M23 Jan 2017 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Fillr: Autofill as a Service

Apps
E-Commerce
FinTech
Information Technology
Mobile
Payments
Software
$5M07 Nov 2016 Australia, Victoria

Geli

Energy Storage
Software
Sustainability
$3M12 Jul 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

AutopilotHQ

Developer Tools
E-Commerce
Lead Management
Marketing
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$7M30 Jul 2015 San Francisco, California, United States
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