Commonwealth Capital Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Woburn, United States

Total investments

110

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

59

Rounds per year

3.79

Lead investments

23

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

34

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSecurityTelecommunications

Summary

In 1995 was created Commonwealth Capital Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Commonwealth Capital Ventures, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, Flybridge Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Flagship Pioneering, Atlas Venture, Ascent Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Flybridge Capital Partners, Flagship Pioneering, Bessemer Venture Partners.

This Commonwealth Capital Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Commonwealth Capital Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, SaaS. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Acacia Communications, Constant Contact, Carbon Design Systems.

The fund was created by Jeff Hurst, Michael Fitzgerald. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
110
Lead investments
23
Exits
34
Rounds per year
3.79
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Software (44)
  • Enterprise Software (26)
  • Internet (18)
  • Analytics (17)
  • Information Technology (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (106)
  • Taiwan (1)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
299M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
8.69
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Collaborate.com 01 Mar 2011 Mobile, Apps, Collaboration, Project Management, iOS, Android, File Sharing Seed 1M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Crux 21 Jun 2023 Internet, Finance, Personal Finance Seed 4M

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