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Crescendo Ventures

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Total investments 116
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 60
Rounds per year 3.87
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.48
Exits 37
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
Summary

In 1993 was created Crescendo Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

Opposing the other organizations, this Crescendo Ventures works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Crescendo Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Crescendo Ventures, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Intel Capital, Pond Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, Pond Ventures, Telecom Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TVM Capital, Pond Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 BroadSoft, Jasper, Relera. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Internet.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Guidde

Browser Extensions
Consumer Applications
Information Technology
Knowledge Management
$11M31 Oct 2023 Belmont, California, United States

Metaplace

Apps
MMO Games
Social Media
$6M22 Oct 2008 California, United States

Jasper Technologies

Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$25M29 Aug 2008 Santa Clara, California, United States

Verimatrix

DRM
Mobile
Network Management Software
Security
Software
$5M23 Jul 2008 San Diego, California, United States

Arteris IP

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Intellectual Property
Semiconductor
Software
$7M23 May 2008 California, United States

NextIO

Information Technology
$18M29 Feb 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

Dash Navigation

Internet
Mobile
Navigation
$30M01 Feb 2008 Texas, United States

ShoZu

Content
Facebook
Mobile
$12M29 Jan 2008 London, England, United Kingdom

CREDANT Technologies

Data Integration
Mobile Devices
Security
$5M20 Dec 2007 Addison, Texas, United States
News
env0 Raises $17M in Series A Funding

– env0, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based based provider of remote-run workflow management solutions for cloud deployments, raised $17M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund, with participation from existing investors Boldstart Ventures, Grove Ventures, and Crescendo Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform.

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Total investments 116
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 3.87
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.48
Exits 37
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Guidde

Browser Extensions
Consumer Applications
Information Technology
Knowledge Management
$11M31 Oct 2023 Belmont, California, United States

Metaplace

Apps
MMO Games
Social Media
$6M22 Oct 2008 California, United States

Jasper Technologies

Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$25M29 Aug 2008 Santa Clara, California, United States

Verimatrix

DRM
Mobile
Network Management Software
Security
Software
$5M23 Jul 2008 San Diego, California, United States

Arteris IP

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Intellectual Property
Semiconductor
Software
$7M23 May 2008 California, United States

NextIO

Information Technology
$18M29 Feb 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

Dash Navigation

Internet
Mobile
Navigation
$30M01 Feb 2008 Texas, United States

ShoZu

Content
Facebook
Mobile
$12M29 Jan 2008 London, England, United Kingdom

CREDANT Technologies

Data Integration
Mobile Devices
Security
$5M20 Dec 2007 Addison, Texas, United States
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