CLI Ventures

Total investments

24

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

2.00

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareHospitalMobile AppsBig DataRobotics3D Technology

Summary

CLI Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from CLI Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this CLI Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the CLI Ventures, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Y Combinator, DHVC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AngelPad, Andreessen Horowitz, letters Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Y Combinator, Plug and Play.

The overall number of key employees were 11.

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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Synlogic, Genalyte, Weft. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Robotics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
1
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.00
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (8)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Software (5)
  • Big Data (4)
  • Hospital (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (23)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2015

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Eonite Perception 05 May 2016 Software, Robotics, 3D Technology, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality Seed 5M United States, California, Palo Alto
iMicrobes 15 Jun 2015 Biotechnology, Chemical Seed 120K United States, California

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