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Aspen Ventures

Founders Chris Rhodes

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.32
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Telecommunications
  • Information Technology
  • Web Hosting
Summary

Aspen Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1983. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Altos.

This organization was formed by Chris Rhodes.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Aspen Ventures, startups are often financed by AVI Capital, Novus Ventures, JK&B Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Novus Ventures, Information Technology Ventures, DataMirror. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by JK&B Capital, AVI Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PointBase, Taviz Technology, Reasoning Inc. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Aspen Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2003.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Satmetrix

Loyalty Programs
SaaS
Software
$20M07 Dec 2000 Redwood City, California, United States

Taviz Technology

Content
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Online Portals
$7M08 Aug 2000 Palo Alto, California, United States

StarVOX

Internet
Software
Telecommunications
$20M17 Dec 1999 California, United States

PointBase

Big Data
Data Visualization
$3M26 Apr 1999 Mountain View, California, United States

StarVOX

Internet
Software
Telecommunications
$7M28 Sep 1998 California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 0.32
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Satmetrix

Loyalty Programs
SaaS
Software
$20M07 Dec 2000 Redwood City, California, United States

Taviz Technology

Content
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Online Portals
$7M08 Aug 2000 Palo Alto, California, United States

StarVOX

Internet
Software
Telecommunications
$20M17 Dec 1999 California, United States

PointBase

Big Data
Data Visualization
$3M26 Apr 1999 Mountain View, California, United States

StarVOX

Internet
Software
Telecommunications
$7M28 Sep 1998 California, United States
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