Columbia Ventures

Total investments

9

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.26

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningComputer VisionAugmented RealityHardwareConsumer ElectronicsWeb HostingWearables

Summary

Columbia Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1987. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Vancouver. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Saladax Biomedical, RealWear, NewCross Technologies 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 exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Augmented Reality, Delivery. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Columbia Ventures, startups are often financed by Sterling Payot, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Consor Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sterling Payot, Rogue Venture Partners, Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The R-Group, LLC, Teradyne, TechNexus Venture Collaborative.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Columbia Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 51 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2008.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
3
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.26
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Augmented Reality (4)
  • Wearables (3)
  • Consumer Electronics (3)
  • Software (3)
  • Hardware (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
Peak activity year
2008

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
2

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
RealWear 01 Jun 2022 Software, Augmented Reality, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Wearables Late Stage Venture 25M United States, Washington, Vancouver

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