Crystal Internet Venture Funds

Total investments

15

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.60

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareB2BMobileManufacturingDeveloper ToolsAdvertising PlatformsIdentity ManagementEmail

Summary

In 1997 was created Crystal Internet Venture Funds, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Cleveland.

The important activity for fund was in 2000. This Crystal Internet Venture Funds works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Crystal Internet Venture Funds, startups are often financed by Walden International, Crystal Internet Ventures, Red Rock Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden International, Intel Capital, Rand Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Walden International, Advantage Capital, VantagePoint Capital Partners.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight uGetHeard, WebEver, Infravio. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 Identity Management, Marketing.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
2
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.60
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Internet (6)
  • Mobile (4)
  • Advertising Platforms (4)
  • Email (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
33M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
2.12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
KnowledgeFirst 19 Jul 2000 Financial Services, Education, Marketplace Early Stage Venture 12M United States, California

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