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Diamondhead Ventures

Founders David Lane

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.41
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.52
Exits 12
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Security
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Wireless
Summary

Diamondhead Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2006. Opposing the other organizations, this Diamondhead Ventures works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2008. The typical startup value when the investment from Diamondhead Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Diamondhead Ventures, startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Ampersand Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Menlo Ventures, JK&B Capital, Ampersand Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, Menlo Ventures, Ampersand Capital Partners.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Security, Wireless. The fund has 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. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BayPackets, FirstRain, Truviso. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by David Lane. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Serus

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Software
Supply Chain Management
$8M11 Jul 2007 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Availigent

Application Performance Management
Data Center
Software
$12M17 Jul 2006 San Jose, California, United States

Cranite Systems

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet
Security
Telecommunications
Wireless
$11M27 Jun 2006 San Jose, California, United States

Serus

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Software
Supply Chain Management
$5M04 Aug 2005 Sunnyvale, California, United States

PassMark Security

Analytics
Retail Technology
Security
$7M14 Apr 2005 Menlo Park, California, United States

Orative Corporation

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mobile
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$12M12 Jul 2004 San Jose, California, United States

UPEK

Biometrics
Network Security
Security
$20M17 Mar 2004 California, United States

Teradiant Networks

Developer Tools
Management Information Systems
Semiconductor
$26M06 Aug 2003 San Jose, California, United States

Cavium

Network Security
Security
Semiconductor
Software
Wireless
$18M01 Aug 2003 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 1.41
Peak activity year 2003
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.52
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Serus

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Software
Supply Chain Management
$8M11 Jul 2007 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Availigent

Application Performance Management
Data Center
Software
$12M17 Jul 2006 San Jose, California, United States

Cranite Systems

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet
Security
Telecommunications
Wireless
$11M27 Jun 2006 San Jose, California, United States

Serus

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Software
Supply Chain Management
$5M04 Aug 2005 Sunnyvale, California, United States

PassMark Security

Analytics
Retail Technology
Security
$7M14 Apr 2005 Menlo Park, California, United States

Orative Corporation

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mobile
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$12M12 Jul 2004 San Jose, California, United States

UPEK

Biometrics
Network Security
Security
$20M17 Mar 2004 California, United States

Teradiant Networks

Developer Tools
Management Information Systems
Semiconductor
$26M06 Aug 2003 San Jose, California, United States

Cavium

Network Security
Security
Semiconductor
Software
Wireless
$18M01 Aug 2003 San Jose, California, United States
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