Bay Partners

Summary

Bay Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1978. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The current fund was established by John Friedenrich. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Bay Partners, startups are often financed by Shasta Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Redpoint. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sapphire Ventures, InterWest Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sapphire Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Redpoint.

This Bay Partners works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Bay Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MuleSoft, Sonatype, Pluris. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Wireless, Software.