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Bay Partners

Founders John Friedenrich

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Total investments 190
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 109
Rounds per year 4.22
Lead investments 26
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 65
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Security
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Coconut Software

Scheduling
Software
Task Management
$22M05 Oct 2021 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Coconut Software

Scheduling
Software
Task Management
$5M27 Nov 2019 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Career Karma

Career Planning
Social Network
Training
$1M09 Jul 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Coconut Software

Scheduling
Software
Task Management
$3M07 Nov 2017 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Covestor

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
Stock Exchanges
$13M13 Jun 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Sonatype

Cyber Security
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Open Source
Software
$25M10 Jul 2012 Maryland, United States

Dropcam

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
$12M19 Jun 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Lumbrera

Financial Services
FinTech
$13M07 Sep 2011 Mexico City, Mexico

Envia Systems

Battery
Electrical Distribution
Energy
Energy Storage
Hardware
$17M26 Jan 2011 California, United States

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Total investments 190
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 4.22
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 26
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 65
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Coconut Software

Scheduling
Software
Task Management
$22M05 Oct 2021 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Coconut Software

Scheduling
Software
Task Management
$5M27 Nov 2019 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Career Karma

Career Planning
Social Network
Training
$1M09 Jul 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Coconut Software

Scheduling
Software
Task Management
$3M07 Nov 2017 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Covestor

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
Stock Exchanges
$13M13 Jun 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Sonatype

Cyber Security
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Open Source
Software
$25M10 Jul 2012 Maryland, United States

Dropcam

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
$12M19 Jun 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Lumbrera

Financial Services
FinTech
$13M07 Sep 2011 Mexico City, Mexico

Envia Systems

Battery
Electrical Distribution
Energy
Energy Storage
Hardware
$17M26 Jan 2011 California, United States
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