Cardinal Venture Capital

Total investments

54

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

2.45

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.52

Exits

16

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareEnterpriseMobilePaymentsFinanceEnterprise SoftwareSecurityAdvertisingWireless

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Mobile. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Adaptive Insights, Delivery Agent, deCarta. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Cardinal Venture Capital works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Cardinal Venture Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2007.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Cardinal Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Worldview Technology Partners, Mobius Venture Capital, El Dorado Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Worldview Technology Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Mobius Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Worldview Technology Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
54
Lead investments
8
Exits
16
Rounds per year
2.45
Follow on index
0.52
Investments by industry
  • Enterprise Software (22)
  • Software (17)
  • Enterprise (10)
  • Advertising (9)
  • Mobile (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (54)
Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
41M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.10
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Workday Adaptive Planning 01 Mar 2007 Software, Enterprise, Finance, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Visualization, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Late Stage Venture 7M United States, California, Palo Alto
Razz 26 Jan 2005 Music, Digital Entertainment, Audio Early Stage Venture 3M United States, California, San Francisco

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