Avalon Ventures

Summary

Avalon Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1983. The main department of described VC is located in the La Jolla. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Avalon Ventures, startups are often financed by Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Austin Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sigma Partners, Foundry Group, Austin Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Union Square Ventures, Sigma Partners, Venrock.

The current fund was established by Kevin Kinsella. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cloud Computing, Software. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zynga, BioVex, Empyr.

Comparing to the other companies, this Avalon Ventures performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Avalon Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.