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Dawntreader Ventures

Founders Ed Sim

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.80
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 13
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Business Intelligence
  • Advertising
  • Internet
  • Collaboration
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Peer39

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
$10M27 May 2009 New York, United States

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
$25M14 Apr 2008 New York, United States

Greenplum Software

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Collaboration
Software
Video
$27M01 Jan 2008 California, United States

Peer39

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
$8M01 Sep 2007 New York, United States

Greenplum Software

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Collaboration
Software
Video
$15M06 Feb 2007 California, United States

Peer39

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
$3M01 Feb 2007 New York, New York, United States

Greenplum Software

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Collaboration
Software
Video
$15M01 Mar 2006 California, United States

Gizmofive

Public Relations
VoIP
$6M01 Feb 2006 San Diego, California, United States

Harbour Networks Holdings

ISP
Network Hardware
Software
VoIP
Web Hosting
$37M03 Mar 2005 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.80
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Peer39

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
$10M27 May 2009 New York, United States

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
$25M14 Apr 2008 New York, United States

Greenplum Software

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Collaboration
Software
Video
$27M01 Jan 2008 California, United States

Peer39

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
$8M01 Sep 2007 New York, United States

Greenplum Software

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Collaboration
Software
Video
$15M06 Feb 2007 California, United States

Peer39

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
$3M01 Feb 2007 New York, New York, United States

Greenplum Software

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Collaboration
Software
Video
$15M01 Mar 2006 California, United States

Gizmofive

Public Relations
VoIP
$6M01 Feb 2006 San Diego, California, United States

Harbour Networks Holdings

ISP
Network Hardware
Software
VoIP
Web Hosting
$37M03 Mar 2005 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
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