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Shepherd Ventures

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 1.09
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 5
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Mobile
  • Biotechnology
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Shepherd Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Diego.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Shepherd Ventures, startups are often financed by Vivo Capital, Valley Ventures, Technology Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tech Coast Angels, Mayfield Fund, Vivo Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mayfield Fund, Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners, Vivo Capital.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WiSpry, Specific Media, Carepoynt. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Electronics.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2005. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from Shepherd Ventures the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Shepherd Ventures performs on 5 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cyabra

Cyber Security
Information Services
Natural Language Processing
Social Media
$5M26 Oct 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

TakeLessons

EdTech
Education
Local
Marketplace
Music
Software
Tutoring
Video
Video Streaming
$6M03 Aug 2011 San Diego, California, United States

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$10M06 Apr 2009 Irvine, California, United States

Sendio

Cyber Security
Email
Security
$3M09 Feb 2009 California, United States

Revance Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$43M12 Dec 2007 California, United States

Andigilog

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$18M20 Feb 2007 Tempe, Arizona, United States

Specific Media

Advertising
Auctions
Digital Media
$10M01 Jun 2006 Irvine, California, United States

Digital Orchid

Content
Gaming
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Sports
Video Games
$6M13 Feb 2006 San Diego, California, United States

Oculir

Biotechnology
Diabetes
$7M08 Dec 2005 San Diego, California, United States

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Total investments 24
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 1.09
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cyabra

Cyber Security
Information Services
Natural Language Processing
Social Media
$5M26 Oct 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

TakeLessons

EdTech
Education
Local
Marketplace
Music
Software
Tutoring
Video
Video Streaming
$6M03 Aug 2011 San Diego, California, United States

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$10M06 Apr 2009 Irvine, California, United States

Sendio

Cyber Security
Email
Security
$3M09 Feb 2009 California, United States

Revance Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$43M12 Dec 2007 California, United States

Andigilog

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$18M20 Feb 2007 Tempe, Arizona, United States

Specific Media

Advertising
Auctions
Digital Media
$10M01 Jun 2006 Irvine, California, United States

Digital Orchid

Content
Gaming
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Sports
Video Games
$6M13 Feb 2006 San Diego, California, United States

Oculir

Biotechnology
Diabetes
$7M08 Dec 2005 San Diego, California, United States
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