BlueRun Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

325

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

185

Rounds per year

12.50

Lead investments

64

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

38

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSCloud ComputingSemiconductor

Summary

BlueRun Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the BlueRun Ventures, startups are often financed by Western Technology Investment, Scott Banister, Matrix Partners China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Founders Fund, DFJ, SIG China (SIG Asia Investments). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Western Technology Investment, Crosslink Capital, Tencent Holdings.

The fund has no specific favorite 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Apps, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PayPal, Meilishuo, Coupa. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from BlueRun Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this BlueRun Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.

This organization was formed by John Malloy. Besides them, we counted 12 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechHealthcareB2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
Up to 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 813000000
Fund raised date
2022-05-19

Analytics

Total investments
325
Lead investments
64
Exits
38
Rounds per year
12.50
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (69)
  • Mobile (39)
  • Internet (32)
  • Health Care (31)
  • E-Commerce (30)
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Investments by region
  • China (145)
  • United States (130)
  • Israel (12)
  • Singapore (2)
  • South Korea (6)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
375M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
6.63
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ai Property Management 11 Mar 2021 Real Estate, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Property Management, Internet of Things Seed Guangdong, Guangzhou, China
Chain Reaction 01 May 2022 Cloud Computing, Data Center, Semiconductor, Blockchain, Privacy Late Stage Venture 70M HaZafon, Yoqne`am `illit, Israel

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