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Ballast Point Ventures

Founders Dick Brandewie Drew Graham Paul Johan

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Total investments 46
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 2.00
Lead investments 21
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 5
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
Summary

Ballast Point Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The main department of described VC is located in the St. Petersburg. The venture was found in North America in United States.

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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ITC Financial Services, The Zebra, Watermark Medical. 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 requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Financial Services.

This organization was formed by Drew Graham, Paul Johan. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Ballast Point Ventures, startups are often financed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Kinetic Ventures, El Dorado Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sutter Hill Ventures, Noro-Moseley Partners, Kinetic Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sutter Hill Ventures, Kinetic Ventures, El Dorado Ventures.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Ballast Point Ventures works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2009. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Work Shield

Human Resources
$6M01 Nov 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Uplift

Consulting
Health Care
Information Technology
Psychology
$10M20 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Viirtue

Information Technology
Software
Telecommunications
$10M07 Mar 2023 St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

sojo

Hospitality
Information Technology
Property Management
Rental
Rental Property
Software
Travel
Travel Accommodations
Vacation Rental
$6M09 Feb 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

CMT Solutions

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Information Technology
$17M28 Sep 2022 Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Gun.io

Open Source
$5M08 Aug 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Keen Decision Systems

Advertising
Analytics
Marketing
SaaS
Software
$11M19 Jul 2022 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Symphonic Distribution

Audio
Information Technology
Music
$37M03 Jan 2022 Tampa, Florida, United States

Key Data

$5M07 Oct 2021 Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, United States
News
PaceMate Closes $8M Series A Financing

– PaceMate Closes $8M Series A Financing
– The round was led by Ballast Point Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand market reach for PaceMate™LIVE.
– Led by Tripp Higgins, CEO, PaceMate provides PaceMate™LIVE, a comprehensive, cloud-native cardiac data management solution, delivering round-the-clock remote monitoring service, customized alerts and automated billing codes.

PaceMate™ Closes Series A Financing to Accelerate Growth

– PaceMate™ announced a $8m Series A investment led by Ballast Point Ventures.
– PaceMate™LIVE is a comprehensive, cloud-native cardiac data management solution, delivering round-the-clock remote monitoring service, customized alerts and automated billing codes.
– PaceMate™ will use this investment from Ballast Point to expand market reach for PaceMate™LIVE and enable more cardiac device clinics to care for their patients efficiently with better outcomes.
Ballast Point Ventures is a later-stage venture capital and growth equity fund founded in 2002 to provide expansion capital for rapidly growing, privately owned companies in the healthcare, software and technology-enabled business services industries.
– PaceMate™ is the first investment out of Ballast Point Ventures IV.

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Total investments 46
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 2.00
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Work Shield

Human Resources
$6M01 Nov 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

Uplift

Consulting
Health Care
Information Technology
Psychology
$10M20 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Viirtue

Information Technology
Software
Telecommunications
$10M07 Mar 2023 St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

sojo

Hospitality
Information Technology
Property Management
Rental
Rental Property
Software
Travel
Travel Accommodations
Vacation Rental
$6M09 Feb 2023 Dallas, Texas, United States

CMT Solutions

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Information Technology
$17M28 Sep 2022 Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Gun.io

Open Source
$5M08 Aug 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Keen Decision Systems

Advertising
Analytics
Marketing
SaaS
Software
$11M19 Jul 2022 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Symphonic Distribution

Audio
Information Technology
Music
$37M03 Jan 2022 Tampa, Florida, United States

Key Data

$5M07 Oct 2021 Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, United States
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