American River Ventures

Total investments

32

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

1.45

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInfrastructureSoftwareMobileHealth CareManufacturingMedicalSemiconductorElectronicsWireless

Summary

In 2001 was created American River Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Sacramento. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The top activity for fund was in 2005. This American River Ventures works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from American River Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WiSpry, PatientSafe Solutions, Lumetric Lighting. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

This organization was formed by Harry Laswell, John Kunhart. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the American River Ventures, startups are often financed by Blueprint Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital, SoftBank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Blueprint Ventures, Nth Power, Menlo Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nth Power, Emerald Technology Ventures, Blueprint Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
7
Exits
8
Rounds per year
1.45
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (13)
  • Electronics (9)
  • Semiconductor (8)
  • Software (8)
  • Wireless (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (31)
Peak activity year
2006

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
14

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Agoura Technologies13 Sep 2005NanotechnologyEarly Stage Venture1MUnited States, California, Roseville
Dust Networks18 Feb 2004Mobile, Electronics, Telecommunications, Wireless, Embedded Systems, Communication HardwareEarly Stage Venture7MUnited States, California, Hayward
Thread20 Nov 2019E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services, Fashion, Lending, Data StorageEarly Stage VentureEngland, London, United Kingdom
Xponent29 Mar 2007Manufacturing, Service Industry, Optical CommunicationLate Stage Venture23MUnited States, California, El Monte

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