Centennial Ventures

Total investments

57

Average round size

40M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

1.43

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

19

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHardwareSemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsWirelessCommunications Infrastructure

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.

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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)
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Investments by region
  • United States (55)
Peak activity year
2005
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

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
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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