Core Ventures Group

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Bethesda, United States

Total investments

28

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

2.55

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSBig DataCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityInternet of Things

Summary

Core Ventures Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Santa Clara. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Consumer Electronics, Big Data. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wizeline, Vorstella, Feed.fm. 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.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Core Ventures Group works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The current fund was established by Joanna Drake Earl, Shinya Akamine. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Core Ventures Group, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, Angel Ventures, VTF Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tuesday Capital, The Perkins Fund, SV Angel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Perkins Fund, Sierra Ventures, Angel Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataIoTCybersecurityMartech/Adtech
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
1
Exits
4
Rounds per year
2.55
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (16)
  • Artificial Intelligence (10)
  • Analytics (5)
  • SaaS (4)
  • Information Technology (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • Mexico (2)
  • Canada (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
94M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
20.27
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
FundRocket 14 May 2018 Software, Information Technology, Banking Seed United States, California, San Francisco
prevoty 11 Mar 2015 Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Network Security, Security, Developer Tools, Cloud Security Early Stage Venture 8M United States, California, Marina Del Rey

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