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Blue Chip Venture Company

Founders Jack Wyant

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 52
Rounds per year 2.09
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 24
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Advertising
  • Health Care
  • Internet
  • Marketing
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bidtellect - Native Intelligence

Advertising
Publishing
Social Media Marketing
$22M16 Jul 2015 Delray Beach, Florida, United States

Adelphic

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Business/Productivity Software
Marketing
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Mobile
$11M17 Dec 2014 Irvine, California, United States

Core2 Group

Data Mining
Database
Financial Services
$4M02 Sep 2014 Virginia, United States

Sedona Systems

Software
Telecommunications
Wired Telecommunications
19 Aug 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Kinetic Social

Advertising
Social Media Marketing
$18M15 Apr 2014 New York, New York, United States

Genesis Media

Analytics
Internet
Predictive Analytics
Publishing
Video Advertising
$10M10 Apr 2014 New York, New York, United States

Kinetic Social

Advertising
Social Media Marketing
$8M07 May 2013 New York, New York, United States

Finance
FinTech
$2M28 Mar 2013 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

ShareThis

Advertising
Analytics
Social Media
Software
$23M20 Mar 2013 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 69
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 2.09
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bidtellect - Native Intelligence

Advertising
Publishing
Social Media Marketing
$22M16 Jul 2015 Delray Beach, Florida, United States

Adelphic

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Business/Productivity Software
Marketing
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Mobile
$11M17 Dec 2014 Irvine, California, United States

Core2 Group

Data Mining
Database
Financial Services
$4M02 Sep 2014 Virginia, United States

Sedona Systems

Software
Telecommunications
Wired Telecommunications
19 Aug 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Kinetic Social

Advertising
Social Media Marketing
$18M15 Apr 2014 New York, New York, United States

Genesis Media

Analytics
Internet
Predictive Analytics
Publishing
Video Advertising
$10M10 Apr 2014 New York, New York, United States

Kinetic Social

Advertising
Social Media Marketing
$8M07 May 2013 New York, New York, United States

Finance
FinTech
$2M28 Mar 2013 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

ShareThis

Advertising
Analytics
Social Media
Software
$23M20 Mar 2013 Palo Alto, California, United States
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