ClearSky

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

West Palm Beach, United States

Total investments

85

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

56

Rounds per year

7.73

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

18

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityEnergyCloud Security

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the North Palm Beach. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the ClearSky, startups are often financed by Glilot Capital Partners, Foundation Capital, Blackstone Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Blackstone Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scale Venture Partners, SAP.iO Fund, Information Venture Partners.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SpaceTime Insight, CyberGRX, Autogrid For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Information Technology.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This ClearSky works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The average startup value when the investment from ClearSky is 100-500 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseCybersecurityManufacturingCloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 244700000
Fund raised date
2018-08-08

Analytics

Total investments
85
Lead investments
11
Exits
18
Rounds per year
7.73
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Cyber Security (40)
  • Software (35)
  • Information Technology (24)
  • Cloud Security (22)
  • Security (22)
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Investments by region
  • United States (78)
  • Israel (5)
  • Canada (1)
  • Spain (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
124M
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
1.43
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fortress Information Security, LLC 19 Apr 2022 Information Technology, Cyber Security, Network Security, Computer, Risk Management Late Stage Venture 125M United States, Florida, Orlando
Guardz 13 Dec 2023 Small and Medium Businesses, Cyber Security, IT Management Early Stage Venture 18M Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

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