DEFTA Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

32

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

0.82

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSecurityMedicalTherapeuticsVideo

Summary

In 1984 was created DEFTA Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the DEFTA Partners, startups are often financed by Hatteras Venture Partners, 180 Degree Capital, Walden Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden Venture Capital, LabCorp, Hatteras Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Walden Venture Capital, Spectrum Health Ventures, Redpoint.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. This DEFTA Partners works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ORIG3N, Intraspect Software, BIoEclipse Therapeutics The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Video, Blockchain.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistHealthcare
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
IsraelJapanUnited KingdomUnited States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
6
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.82
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Medical (14)
  • Biotechnology (13)
  • Health Care (11)
  • Software (10)
  • Mobile (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (28)
  • Israel (3)
  • Japan (1)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
7M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.82

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Frame aps 29 Jan 2021 Real Estate, Software, Information Technology, Apps, Construction Seed 176K Hovedstaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
InformAI 01 May 2021 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care, Medical, Image Recognition Seed 1M United States, Texas, Houston
ORIG3N 12 Jul 2018 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Personal Health Early Stage Venture 14M United States, Massachusetts, Boston

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