Cross Creek

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Salt Lake City, United States

Total investments

79

Average round size

65M

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

4.39

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

37

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCloud ComputingAdvertising

Summary

Cross Creek appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Salt Lake City.

The current fund was established by Karey Barker. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Cross Creek, startups are often financed by Greycroft, Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are QuestMark Partners, Greenspring Associates, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founders Circle Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures, QuestMark Partners.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coupang, DocuSign, AppDynamics. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Analytics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

This Cross Creek works on 18 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Cross Creek is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistBiotech/Life SciencesConsumer/Retail

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
79
Lead investments
2
Exits
37
Rounds per year
4.39
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (35)
  • Enterprise Software (16)
  • Health Care (16)
  • Analytics (13)
  • SaaS (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (74)
  • Israel (3)
  • South Korea (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
12
Number of Decacorns
12
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
800M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
2.90
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bright Health 29 Nov 2018 Health Care, Hospital, Health Insurance, Insurance, InsurTech Late Stage Venture 200M United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis
Novidea Software 09 Apr 2024 Software, Cloud Computing, Insurance Late Stage Venture 30M HaMerkaz, Netanya, Israel

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