DAG Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

260

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

145

Rounds per year

13.00

Lead investments

34

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

96

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurityAdvertising

Summary

DAG Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from DAG Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. This DAG Ventures works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The fund was created by Tom Goodrich. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the DAG Ventures, startups are often financed by Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Redpoint, Integral Capital Partners, GV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, T. Rowe Price, Bright Capital.

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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Enterprise Software. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Grubhub, FireEye, Eventbrite

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistBiotech/Life SciencesMartech/AdtechCybersecurityMedia/Content Show 25 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
260
Lead investments
34
Exits
96
Rounds per year
13.00
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (71)
  • Enterprise Software (43)
  • Internet (36)
  • Mobile (30)
  • SaaS (29)
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Investments by region
  • United States (249)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Israel (1)
  • Philippines (1)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2008
Number of Unicorns
12
Number of Decacorns
13
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
299M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.80
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Avi Networks 20 Jan 2016 Software, Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Data Services Late Stage Venture 22M United States, California, San Jose
Huddle 24 May 2012 Accounting, Software, Database Late Stage Venture 24M England, London, United Kingdom

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