Castile Ventures

Total investments

58

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

2.42

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

22

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyBusiness IntelligenceSecurityReal TimeVideoWirelessWeb Hosting

Summary

Castile Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Wellesley. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Castile Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2005. Opposing the other organizations, this Castile Ventures works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quantiva, Health Guru Media Inc., PermissionTV. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Business Intelligence, Information Technology.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Castile Ventures, startups are often financed by ComVentures, .406 Ventures, Prism Venture Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Prism Venture Management, ComVentures, Battery Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Prism Venture Management, Oak Investment Partners, Formative Ventures.

The fund was created by Nina Saberi. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
58
Lead investments
7
Exits
22
Rounds per year
2.42
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Security (12)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • Internet (11)
  • Web Hosting (10)
  • Video (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (57)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
39M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.24

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
LEAD School 21 Aug 2020 E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Secondary Education Late Stage Venture 27M India, Mumbai, Maharashtra
PermissionTV 01 Jun 2007 Publishing, Video, Video on Demand Late Stage Venture 9M United States, Massachusetts
PhotonEx 15 Oct 2001 Event Management, Events Late Stage Venture 90M England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

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