Bridgescale Partners

Total investments

23

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

18

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSAppsEnterprise SoftwareNetwork SecuritySecurityiOSVirtual Currency

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
2
Exits
10
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Mobile (7)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
  • Security (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
  • Canada (4)
Peak activity year
2010
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
853M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
32.94
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jasper Technologies 29 Aug 2008 Software, Mobile, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things Late Stage Venture 25M United States, California, Santa Clara
Proofpoint 14 Sep 2004 Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Network Security, Security Late Stage Venture 20M United States, California, Sunnyvale

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