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ABS Ventures

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Total investments 86
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$20M
Portfolio companies 52
Rounds per year 2.15
Lead investments 16
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 28
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
Summary

ABS Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1982. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Waltham.

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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Active Network, Celox Networks, Synchronoss Technologies Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Advertising. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the ABS Ventures, startups are often financed by North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Enterprise Partners, Trellis Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Morgenthaler Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Enterprise Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Austin Ventures, Trellis Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

This ABS Ventures works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from ABS Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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B2C
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$9M09 Jan 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Centric Software

Fashion
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Information Technology
Outdoors
Retail
Software
Sporting Goods
$7M23 Feb 2011 Campbell, California, United States

Overtone

Analytics
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
$7M19 Apr 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Wimba

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Software
$6M09 Jun 2009 New York, United States

EverBridge

Business Development
Enterprise Software
Information Services
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$2M19 Apr 2009 North Brabant

ClickSquared

B2C
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$11M01 Jan 2009 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Advertising
Real Time
Security
$10M01 Oct 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Certona

Advertising
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Personalization
Real Time
SaaS
Software
$7M22 Jul 2008 San Diego, California, United States

Overtone

Analytics
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
$6M02 Jul 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 86
Average round size 20M
Rounds per year 2.15
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ClickSquared

B2C
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$9M09 Jan 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Centric Software

Fashion
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Information Technology
Outdoors
Retail
Software
Sporting Goods
$7M23 Feb 2011 Campbell, California, United States

Overtone

Analytics
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
$7M19 Apr 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Wimba

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Software
$6M09 Jun 2009 New York, United States

EverBridge

Business Development
Enterprise Software
Information Services
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$2M19 Apr 2009 North Brabant

ClickSquared

B2C
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$11M01 Jan 2009 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Advertising
Real Time
Security
$10M01 Oct 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Certona

Advertising
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Personalization
Real Time
SaaS
Software
$7M22 Jul 2008 San Diego, California, United States

Overtone

Analytics
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
$6M02 Jul 2008 San Francisco, California, United States
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