Benhamou Global Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

114

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

77

Rounds per year

5.70

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

17

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSCyber SecurityCloud ComputingInternet of Things

Summary

Benhamou Global Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2004. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Benhamou Global Ventures, startups are often financed by Canvas Ventures, Plug and Play, Nesta Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Plug and Play, Sofinnova Investments, Partech. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Plug and Play, Sofinnova Investments, Grayhawk Capital.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Computer. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Finjan Holdings, Light Blue Optics, Virtual Instruments.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Benhamou Global Ventures works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The fund was created by Eric Benhamou. The overall number of key employees were 9.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
MobilityCloud/InfrastructureCybersecurity
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 110000000
Fund raised date
2021-09-30

Analytics

Total investments
114
Lead investments
16
Exits
17
Rounds per year
5.70
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (56)
  • Information Technology (25)
  • SaaS (24)
  • Artificial Intelligence (23)
  • Analytics (21)
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Investments by region
  • United States (85)
  • Israel (13)
  • France (8)
  • Germany (2)
  • Australia (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
836K
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.24

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Evinced 23 Jun 2022 Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision Early Stage Venture 37M United States, California
Greenly 21 Mar 2024 Software, Mobile Apps, Banking, GreenTech, Environmental Engineering, Quantified Self Early Stage Venture 56M Ile-de-France, Paris, France

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