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American River Ventures

Founders Harry Laswell John Kunhart

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 1.45
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Semiconductor
  • Software
  • Wireless
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PatientSafe Solutions

Biotechnology
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
mHealth
Software
$30M17 Mar 2010 San Diego, California, United States

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$10M06 Apr 2009 Irvine, California, United States

SynapSense

Electronic Equipment and Instruments
Environmental Services (B2B)
GreenTech
Web Hosting
Wireless
Wireless Communications Equipment
$7M10 Mar 2009 California, United States

Lumetric Lighting

Developer Platform
Innovation Management
Lighting
$4M01 Aug 2008 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$7M10 Mar 2008 Irvine, California, United States

SynapSense

Electronic Equipment and Instruments
Environmental Services (B2B)
GreenTech
Web Hosting
Wireless
Wireless Communications Equipment
$11M10 Sep 2007 California, United States

SpectraSensors

Chemical
Energy
Manufacturing
Oil and Gas
$14M10 Jul 2007 Houston, Texas, United States

Xponent

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Service Industry
$23M29 Mar 2007 El Monte, California, United States

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$13M17 Oct 2006 Irvine, California, United States

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Total investments 32
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.45
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PatientSafe Solutions

Biotechnology
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
mHealth
Software
$30M17 Mar 2010 San Diego, California, United States

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$10M06 Apr 2009 Irvine, California, United States

SynapSense

Electronic Equipment and Instruments
Environmental Services (B2B)
GreenTech
Web Hosting
Wireless
Wireless Communications Equipment
$7M10 Mar 2009 California, United States

Lumetric Lighting

Developer Platform
Innovation Management
Lighting
$4M01 Aug 2008 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$7M10 Mar 2008 Irvine, California, United States

SynapSense

Electronic Equipment and Instruments
Environmental Services (B2B)
GreenTech
Web Hosting
Wireless
Wireless Communications Equipment
$11M10 Sep 2007 California, United States

SpectraSensors

Chemical
Energy
Manufacturing
Oil and Gas
$14M10 Jul 2007 Houston, Texas, United States

Xponent

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Service Industry
$23M29 Mar 2007 El Monte, California, United States

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$13M17 Oct 2006 Irvine, California, United States
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