Crescendo Ventures

Total investments

116

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

60

Rounds per year

3.87

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

37

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileManufacturingSecuritySemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

In 1993 was created Crescendo Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

Opposing the other organizations, this Crescendo Ventures works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Crescendo Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Crescendo Ventures, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Intel Capital, Pond Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, Pond Ventures, Telecom Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TVM Capital, Pond Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 BroadSoft, Jasper, Relera. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Internet.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
116
Lead investments
13
Exits
37
Rounds per year
3.87
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Software (33)
  • Telecommunications (24)
  • Manufacturing (20)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • Mobile (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (96)
  • Canada (3)
  • Germany (5)
  • Sweden (3)
  • United Kingdom (6)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
105M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.72
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
eASIC 06 Oct 2005 Software Engineering, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics, Industrial Design Late Stage Venture 17M United States, California, San Jose
Guidde 31 Oct 2023 Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Consumer Applications, Browser Extensions Early Stage Venture 11M United States, California, Belmont

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