Black Diamond Ventures

Summary

Black Diamond Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Glendale.

Comparing to the other companies, this Black Diamond Ventures performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2004. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Black Diamond Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Black Diamond Ventures, startups are often financed by Moneta Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Inc., Walden Riverwood Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lucas Venture Group, Walden Riverwood Ventures, Varian. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NFX.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Education. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Berkeley Lights, Capella, Engage3 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 was created by Christopher Lucas. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.