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Apex Venture Partners

Founders James Johnson

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Total investments 89
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 51
Rounds per year 2.41
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 26
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Analytics
Summary

Apex Venture Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1987. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Apex Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Enterprise Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Advanced Equities. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are North Hill Ventures, ECentury Capital Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pritzker Group Venture Capital, North Hill Ventures, I2A Fund.

The current fund was established by James Johnson. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The average startup value when the investment from Apex Venture Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Apex Venture Partners works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bloom Energy, Cortera, Celox Networks. 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 most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Analytics. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Illumitex

Agriculture
AgTech
Architecture
Energy Efficiency
Hardware
Horticulture
Manufacturing
Software
$16M11 Aug 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

Sittercity

Child Care
Consumer
Internet
$13M18 Nov 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Smart Lunches

Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Education
Food and Beverage
Internet
Online Portals
Software
$1M23 Aug 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

TrunkClub

E-Commerce
Fashion
Retail
$11M08 Sep 2011 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sittercity

Child Care
Consumer
Internet
$22M27 Apr 2011 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pear (formerly Apparel Media Group)

Advertising
B2B
Local
Social Media
Sponsorship
$1M01 Feb 2011 Chicago, Illinois, United States

DialogTech

Analytics
Automation/Workflow Software
Business/Productivity Software
Enterprise Software
Marketing Automation
Media and Information Services (B2B)
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$8M28 Dec 2010 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Appolicious

Apps
Mobile
$2M01 Dec 2009 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
$75M27 Jul 2009 Georgia, United States

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Total investments 89
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 2.41
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 26
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Illumitex

Agriculture
AgTech
Architecture
Energy Efficiency
Hardware
Horticulture
Manufacturing
Software
$16M11 Aug 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

Sittercity

Child Care
Consumer
Internet
$13M18 Nov 2013 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Smart Lunches

Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Education
Food and Beverage
Internet
Online Portals
Software
$1M23 Aug 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

TrunkClub

E-Commerce
Fashion
Retail
$11M08 Sep 2011 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sittercity

Child Care
Consumer
Internet
$22M27 Apr 2011 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pear (formerly Apparel Media Group)

Advertising
B2B
Local
Social Media
Sponsorship
$1M01 Feb 2011 Chicago, Illinois, United States

DialogTech

Analytics
Automation/Workflow Software
Business/Productivity Software
Enterprise Software
Marketing Automation
Media and Information Services (B2B)
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$8M28 Dec 2010 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Appolicious

Apps
Mobile
$2M01 Dec 2009 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
$75M27 Jul 2009 Georgia, United States
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