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PointGuard Ventures

Founders Pete Thomas

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 7
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.53
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Business/Productivity Software
  • Messaging
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Pete Thomas. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this PointGuard Ventures works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the PointGuard Ventures, startups are often financed by Rev1 Ventures, Foundation Capital, TELUS Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rev1 Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rev1 Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Mobile Apps. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Deem, Movius Interactive, Insilixa The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Prevedere

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$12M26 Mar 2019 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Movius Interactive Corporation

Information Technology
Messaging
Mobile
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$15M20 Jun 2017 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Prevedere

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$10M09 Mar 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Prevedere

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$7M30 Jun 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Nod

Consulting
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$13M16 Jun 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

SERVIZ

Apps
E-Commerce
Home Decor
Home Renovation
iOS
Mobile Apps
$12M16 Dec 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Information Technology
Messaging
Mobile
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$13M24 Jun 2014 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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Total investments 15
Average round size 19M
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.53
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Prevedere

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$12M26 Mar 2019 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Movius Interactive Corporation

Information Technology
Messaging
Mobile
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$15M20 Jun 2017 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Prevedere

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$10M09 Mar 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Prevedere

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
Software
$7M30 Jun 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Nod

Consulting
Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$13M16 Jun 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

SERVIZ

Apps
E-Commerce
Home Decor
Home Renovation
iOS
Mobile Apps
$12M16 Dec 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Information Technology
Messaging
Mobile
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$13M24 Jun 2014 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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