Ballast Point Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

St. Petersburg, United States

Total investments

46

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

2.00

Lead investments

21

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalComputer

Summary

Ballast Point Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The main department of described VC is located in the St. Petersburg. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ITC Financial Services, The Zebra, Watermark Medical. 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 requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Financial Services.

This organization was formed by Drew Graham, Paul Johan. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Ballast Point Ventures, startups are often financed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Kinetic Ventures, El Dorado Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sutter Hill Ventures, Noro-Moseley Partners, Kinetic Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sutter Hill Ventures, Kinetic Ventures, El Dorado Ventures.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Ballast Point Ventures works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2009. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareB2B/EnterpriseTelecommunicationsFintechConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series DSeries ASeries ESeries FSeries B Show 1 more
Geo focus
Check size
5M — 15M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 190000000
Fund raised date
2022-01-05

Analytics

Total investments
46
Lead investments
21
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.00
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Software (14)
  • Health Care (13)
  • Medical (11)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Biotechnology (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (46)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
31M
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
1.32

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
The Zebra 05 Feb 2020 Application Software, Automotive, Information Services (B2C), Automotive Insurance, Marketplace, Insurance, Search Engine, Price Comparison, Auto Insurance Late Stage Venture 43M United States, Texas, Austin
Work Shield 01 Nov 2023 Human Resources Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Texas, Dallas

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