Brightstone Venture Capital

Total investments

38

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

0.97

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedical DeviceMedicalVirtual RealityTherapeuticsCloud Storage

Summary

In 1985 was created Brightstone Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Minneapolis. The company was established in North America in United States.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Brightstone Venture Capital works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Miromatrix Medical, Disc Dynamics, Wasabi Technologies. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Semiconductor. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by David Dalvey, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Seth DeGroot. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Brightstone Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Sierra Ventures, UMC Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are HTC, Daren Cotter, StartEngine. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StartEngine, HTC, rocketship.vc.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
2
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.97
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (10)
  • Software (7)
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Medical (5)
  • Information Technology (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (37)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
46M
Group Appearance index
0.61
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
4.97
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jido Maps 01 Apr 2018 Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Telecommunications, Developer APIs Seed 0 United States, California, San Francisco
Xplore 24 Feb 2022 Commercial Early Stage Venture 16M United States, Washington

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