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Cardinal Venture Capital

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Total investments 54
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 2.45
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.52
Exits 16
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • Enterprise
  • Advertising
  • Mobile
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

deCarta

Enterprise Software
Geospatial
Location Based Services
Navigation
Software
$10M09 May 2008 San Jose, California, United States

Zoove

Advertising
App Marketing
Mobile
$13M27 Feb 2008 New York, New York, United States

BlueRoads

Enterprise Software
Sales
$9M14 Sep 2007 California, United States

deCarta

Enterprise Software
Geospatial
Location Based Services
Navigation
Software
$15M24 Jul 2007 San Jose, California, United States

GuardianEdge Technologies

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Security
$10M23 Jul 2007 California, United States

Tempo Payments

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Payments
$4M25 Jun 2007 California, United States

PlayPhone

Gaming
Social
Wireless
$18M10 May 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Sonopia

Charity
Mobile
Service Industry
$12M01 May 2007 California, United States

Workday Adaptive Planning

Business Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Data Visualization
Enterprise
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Software
Finance
SaaS
Software
$7M01 Mar 2007 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 54
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 2.45
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.52
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

deCarta

Enterprise Software
Geospatial
Location Based Services
Navigation
Software
$10M09 May 2008 San Jose, California, United States

Zoove

Advertising
App Marketing
Mobile
$13M27 Feb 2008 New York, New York, United States

BlueRoads

Enterprise Software
Sales
$9M14 Sep 2007 California, United States

deCarta

Enterprise Software
Geospatial
Location Based Services
Navigation
Software
$15M24 Jul 2007 San Jose, California, United States

GuardianEdge Technologies

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Security
$10M23 Jul 2007 California, United States

Tempo Payments

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Payments
$4M25 Jun 2007 California, United States

PlayPhone

Gaming
Social
Wireless
$18M10 May 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Sonopia

Charity
Mobile
Service Industry
$12M01 May 2007 California, United States

Workday Adaptive Planning

Business Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Data Visualization
Enterprise
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Software
Finance
SaaS
Software
$7M01 Mar 2007 Palo Alto, California, United States
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