BYU Cougar Capital

Summary

In 2005 was created BYU Cougar Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Provo.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Riverbed Technology, Health Catalyst, Fusion-io. 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 Cloud Computing, SaaS. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The current fund was established by Gary Williams. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the BYU Cougar Capital, startups are often financed by Peterson Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Kickstart Seed Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Signal Peak Ventures, Peterson Ventures, Kickstart Seed Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Signal Peak Ventures, AllegisCyber, Jump Capital.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from BYU Cougar Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this BYU Cougar Capital works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.