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Chess Ventures

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.55
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 6
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Security
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Financial Services
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

newScale

Cloud Computing
Computer
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$15M29 Mar 2005 California, United States

Kibo Commerce

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Loyalty Programs
SaaS
Search Engine
Software
Web Design
$4M01 Mar 2005 Dallas, Texas, United States

DigitalPersona

Biometrics
Hardware
Network Security
Security
Software
$13M05 Apr 2004 Redwood City, California, United States

Integration Associates

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Wireless
$11M11 Feb 2004 Mountain View, California, United States

Infoblox

Network Hardware
Real Time
Security
$2M19 Mar 2003 Santa Clara, California, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 0.55
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

newScale

Cloud Computing
Computer
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$15M29 Mar 2005 California, United States

Kibo Commerce

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Loyalty Programs
SaaS
Search Engine
Software
Web Design
$4M01 Mar 2005 Dallas, Texas, United States

DigitalPersona

Biometrics
Hardware
Network Security
Security
Software
$13M05 Apr 2004 Redwood City, California, United States

Integration Associates

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Wireless
$11M11 Feb 2004 Mountain View, California, United States

Infoblox

Network Hardware
Real Time
Security
$2M19 Mar 2003 Santa Clara, California, United States
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