Dawntreader Ventures

Total investments

20

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.80

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

13

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsCollaborationBig DataBusiness IntelligenceVideoAdvertisingVoIPContent Marketing

Summary

Dawntreader Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Dawntreader Ventures, startups are often financed by Reuters Venture Capital, Mission Ventures, Jonathan Medved. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mission Ventures, EDF Ventures, Sierra Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sierra Ventures, Canaan Partners, Mission Ventures.

The current fund was established by Ed Sim. The overall number of key employees were 6.

This Dawntreader Ventures works on 27 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. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2007.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Greenplum Software, SIPphone, DeepNines Technologies. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, VoIP. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
5
Exits
13
Rounds per year
0.80
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Business Intelligence (4)
  • Advertising (4)
  • Internet (3)
  • Collaboration (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
Peak activity year
2006

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
12M
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.24

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
LivePerson 01 Jan 1999 Internet, Software, Business Intelligence, Customer Service Seed 3M United States, New York, New York
Sport Heroes 15 Apr 2018 Fitness, Health Care, Wellness, Communities, Lifestyle, Sports, Brand Marketing, Cycling Early Stage Venture 4M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Tutor.com 05 Feb 2004 E-Learning, EdTech, Higher Education, Training, Education, Tutoring Early Stage Venture 15M United States, New York, New York

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