DBL Investors

Total investments

76

Average round size

42M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

4.00

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.51

Exits

9

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsManufacturingElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyAgTechSolarAgriculture

Summary

DBL Investors is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from DBL Investors the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. This DBL Investors works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SolarCity, The RealReal, View The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the DBL Investors, startups are often financed by Trident Capital, XSeed Capital, Sigma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, Trident Capital, The Westly Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, e.ventures, Trident Capital.

The current fund was established by Nancy Pfund. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
76
Lead investments
11
Exits
9
Rounds per year
4.00
Follow on index
0.51
Investments by industry
  • Energy (24)
  • Renewable Energy (19)
  • Manufacturing (17)
  • Software (9)
  • Internet (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (71)
  • Netherlands (4)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
323M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
9
Strategy success index
0.80

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