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Bridgescale Partners

Founders Matthew Cowan Robert Chaplinsky

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 18
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 10
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
  • Enterprise Software
  • Security
Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Bridgescale Partners, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Benchmark. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mohr Davidow Ventures, Benchmark, Sequoia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Icon Ventures, Temasek Holdings, RRE Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Bridgescale Partners performs on 14 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The high activity for fund was in 2010. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

This organization was formed by Matthew Cowan, Robert Chaplinsky.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Jasper, Carrier IQ, Digital Chocolate We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Network Security, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pomelo Health

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Software
$3M11 Jul 2017 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

BitGo

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Virtual Currency
$12M16 Jun 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Twist

iOS
Mobile
$6M19 Jul 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

J. Hilburn

Direct Sales
E-Commerce
Fashion
Retail
$5M09 Jun 2011 Dallas, Texas, United States

Twelvefold

Advertising
Marketing
Video
$7M25 May 2011 New York, New York, United States

Rypple

Application Performance Management
Cloud Data Services
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$7M29 Sep 2010 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Marble Security

Apps
Mobile
Risk Management
Security
$22M03 May 2010 California, United States

BlueCat

Apps
Cloud Computing
Computer
Enterprise Software
Mobile Devices
Network Security
Virtualization
$11M28 Oct 2009 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jasper Technologies

Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$25M29 Aug 2008 Santa Clara, California, United States

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Total investments 23
Average round size 12M
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pomelo Health

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
Software
$3M11 Jul 2017 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

BitGo

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Virtual Currency
$12M16 Jun 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Twist

iOS
Mobile
$6M19 Jul 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

J. Hilburn

Direct Sales
E-Commerce
Fashion
Retail
$5M09 Jun 2011 Dallas, Texas, United States

Twelvefold

Advertising
Marketing
Video
$7M25 May 2011 New York, New York, United States

Rypple

Application Performance Management
Cloud Data Services
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$7M29 Sep 2010 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Marble Security

Apps
Mobile
Risk Management
Security
$22M03 May 2010 California, United States

BlueCat

Apps
Cloud Computing
Computer
Enterprise Software
Mobile Devices
Network Security
Virtualization
$11M28 Oct 2009 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jasper Technologies

Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$25M29 Aug 2008 Santa Clara, California, United States
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