Azure Capital Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

174

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

96

Rounds per year

7.25

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

36

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareTelecommunicationsVoIP

Summary

In 2000 was created Azure Capital Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The current fund was established by Mike Kwatinetz, Paul Ferris, Paul Weinstein. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Azure Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, Wand Partners, Quest Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wand Partners, DFJ, Kinetic Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wand Partners, Intel Capital, Foundation Capital.

The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Azure Capital Partners works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2008. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Azure Capital Partners is 5-10 millions dollars.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are VoIP, Travel. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight VMware, Onix Microsystems, Fonality. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States, Silicon Valley

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
174
Lead investments
24
Exits
36
Rounds per year
7.25
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (53)
  • E-Commerce (25)
  • Information Technology (23)
  • SaaS (22)
  • Internet (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (160)
  • Canada (12)
  • France (1)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
46M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.75
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
QuoteToMe 29 Jul 2021 Software, Construction Seed 1M Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Sardel 19 Apr 2021 Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing Seed United States, New York, New York

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