Crosslink Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

460

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

259

Rounds per year

13.14

Lead investments

79

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

85

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Crosslink Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1989. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Crosslink Capital works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Crosslink Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Crosslink Capital, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Meritech Capital Partners, BlueRun Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Kleiner Perkins, Trinity Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, Norwest Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau.

The fund was created by Michael Stark, Sy Kaufman. We also calculated 12 valuable employees in our database.

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 Pandora, Postmates, Coupa. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Internet. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistConsumer/RetailB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
1M — 9M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 170000000

Analytics

Total investments
460
Lead investments
79
Exits
85
Rounds per year
13.14
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (171)
  • Internet (77)
  • SaaS (72)
  • Enterprise Software (65)
  • Information Technology (63)
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Investments by region
  • United States (451)
  • Canada (5)
  • Japan (1)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
10
Number of Decacorns
11
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
222M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.20
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bolster Inc. 22 May 2024 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber Security Early Stage Venture 14M United States, California
UserEvidence 26 Sep 2023 Information Technology, SaaS, Service Industry Early Stage Venture 9M United States, Wyoming, Jackson

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