Centennial Ventures
57
40M
29
1.43
9
0.49
19
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- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1982 was created Centennial Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Denver. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Hardware. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zayo, Panasas, Ellacoya Networks. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
This organization was formed by Jack Tankersley, Steve Halstedt. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Centennial Ventures, startups are often financed by Austin Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, Meritage Funds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Austin Ventures, Meritage Funds, Sevin Rosen Funds. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Austin Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pharos Capital Partners.
The top activity for fund was in 2005. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Centennial Ventures performs on 8 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Centennial Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 57
- Lead investments
- 9
- Exits
- 19
- Rounds per year
- 1.43
- Follow on index
- 0.49
- Investments by industry
- Telecommunications (18)
- Wireless (17)
- Internet (11)
- Software (9)
- Hardware (8) Show 42 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (55)
- Peak activity year
- 2005
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 20
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 127M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.98
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.28
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Ellacoya Networks | 04 Dec 2000 | Communication Hardware, Network Hardware, Communications Infrastructure | Early Stage Venture | 52M | United States, New Hampshire |
maniaTV | 03 Mar 2008 | Video, Video Streaming, TV | Late Stage Venture | 5M | United States, California |
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