Blue Chip Venture Company

Total investments

69

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

52

Rounds per year

2.09

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

24

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareMarketingPharmaceuticalAdvertising

Summary

In 1990 was created Blue Chip Venture Company, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cincinnati. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Blue Chip Venture Company, startups are often financed by HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Osprey Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Venrock. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, Triathlon Medical Venture Partners, West Capital Advisors.

This organization was formed by Jack Wyant. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Opposing the other organizations, this Blue Chip Venture Company works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Blue Chip Venture Company is 100-500 millions dollars.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Publishing, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kinetic Social, Space.com, ShareThis

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
13
Exits
24
Rounds per year
2.09
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Software (19)
  • Advertising (16)
  • Health Care (12)
  • Internet (8)
  • Marketing (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (65)
  • Canada (2)
  • Germany (1)
  • Japan (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
53M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
1.69
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Oxocan 16 Mar 2021 E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness, Personal Health Seed 100K England, London, United Kingdom
ShareThis 20 Mar 2013 Software, Analytics, Social Media, Advertising Late Stage Venture 23M United States, California, Palo Alto
XOS Digital 20 Apr 2010 Software, Sports, Video, Audio Early Stage Venture 41M United States, Florida, Orlando

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