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Benaroya Capital

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 0.40
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 11
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Enterprise Software
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
Summary

Benaroya Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1956. The main department of described VC is located in the Bellevue. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical startup value when the investment from Benaroya Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Benaroya Capital performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The top activity for fund was in 2011. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Benaroya Capital, startups are often financed by Ampersand Capital Partners, Star Ventures, Samsung Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Voyager Capital, Fluke Venture Partners, iSherpa Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iSherpa Capital, DoCoMo Capital, Ampersand Capital Partners.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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 no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Carena, ShareBuilder, DNA Response. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Communities
Coworking
Real Estate
Software
$1M02 Nov 2017 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Zipline Games

Gaming
Mobile
Video Games
$2M06 Jul 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

DNA Response

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Marketplace
Online Portals
$3M01 Feb 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

Swype

Android
Apps
Software
$2M12 Jul 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States

DNA Response

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Marketplace
Online Portals
$575K13 Jun 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States

buuteeq

Advertising
Hospitality
Marketing
$3M08 Jun 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States

Sparkbuy

Consumer Electronics
E-Commerce
Shopping
$1M29 Nov 2010 Seattle, Washington, United States

Avalara

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$4M27 May 2010 Seattle, Washington, United States

Swype

Android
Apps
Software
$5M15 Dec 2009 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 27
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.40
Peak activity year 2002
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Communities
Coworking
Real Estate
Software
$1M02 Nov 2017 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Zipline Games

Gaming
Mobile
Video Games
$2M06 Jul 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

DNA Response

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Marketplace
Online Portals
$3M01 Feb 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

Swype

Android
Apps
Software
$2M12 Jul 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States

DNA Response

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Marketplace
Online Portals
$575K13 Jun 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States

buuteeq

Advertising
Hospitality
Marketing
$3M08 Jun 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States

Sparkbuy

Consumer Electronics
E-Commerce
Shopping
$1M29 Nov 2010 Seattle, Washington, United States

Avalara

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$4M27 May 2010 Seattle, Washington, United States

Swype

Android
Apps
Software
$5M15 Dec 2009 Seattle, Washington, United States
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