Ballast Point Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
St. Petersburg, United States
46
13M
34
2.00
21
0.26
5
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- 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) Show 59 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (46)
- Peak activity year
- 2020
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- 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 |
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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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