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California Technology Ventures

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 22
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.45
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical Device
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Software
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 Pasadena.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Huaxia Dairy Farm, Ceregene, SurgRx, Inc. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Gaming, Therapeutics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the California Technology Ventures, startups are often financed by Psilos Group, New Enterprise Associates, Canaan Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Aphelion Capital, Azure Capital Partners, River Cities Capital Funds. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Hamilton BioVentures, The Vertical Group.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this California Technology Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2007. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from California Technology Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AiVita Biomedical

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Medical
$25M29 Dec 2020 Irvine, California, United States

MariaDB

Database
Enterprise Software
Software
Technical Support
$27M29 Sep 2017 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Gamevice

Developer Tools
Gaming
Mobile Devices
Video Games
$12M31 May 2017 Simi Valley, California, United States

AiVita Biomedical

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Medical
$2M06 Jun 2016 Irvine, California, United States

MariaDB

Database
Enterprise Software
Software
Technical Support
$9M21 Jan 2016 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

CyMedica

Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$11M16 Jun 2015 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

MariaDB

Database
Enterprise Software
Software
Technical Support
$20M23 Oct 2013 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

VideoCare

Hardware
Software
23 Apr 2013 California, United States

Huaxia Dairy Farm

B2B
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Logistics
$50M01 Nov 2012 Sanhe City, Hebei, China

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Total investments 40
Average round size 13M
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.45
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AiVita Biomedical

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Medical
$25M29 Dec 2020 Irvine, California, United States

MariaDB

Database
Enterprise Software
Software
Technical Support
$27M29 Sep 2017 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Gamevice

Developer Tools
Gaming
Mobile Devices
Video Games
$12M31 May 2017 Simi Valley, California, United States

AiVita Biomedical

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Medical
$2M06 Jun 2016 Irvine, California, United States

MariaDB

Database
Enterprise Software
Software
Technical Support
$9M21 Jan 2016 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

CyMedica

Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$11M16 Jun 2015 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

MariaDB

Database
Enterprise Software
Software
Technical Support
$20M23 Oct 2013 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

VideoCare

Hardware
Software
23 Apr 2013 California, United States

Huaxia Dairy Farm

B2B
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Logistics
$50M01 Nov 2012 Sanhe City, Hebei, China
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