Chess Ventures
12
9M
8
0.57
2
0.33
7
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Summary
Chess Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Semiconductor. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Infoblox, newScale, DigitalPersona
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Chess Ventures, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Crosslink Capital, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Open Prairie, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Steamboat Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital.
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2005. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. Comparing to the other companies, this Chess Ventures performs on 31 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.
Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 12
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 0.57
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Software (7)
- Security (4)
- Enterprise Software (3)
- SaaS (3)
- Financial Services (2) Show 26 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (12)
- Peak activity year
- 2004
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 20
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 210M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.92
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.43
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integration Associates | 11 Feb 2004 | Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Wireless | Early Stage Venture | 11M | United States, California, Mountain View |
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