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DFJ Element

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.94
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 4
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Identity Management
  • Government
  • Security
Summary

In 2006 was created DFJ Element, which is appeared as VC.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the DFJ Element, startups are often financed by Tsing Capital, Mission Ventures, Mike Lazaridis. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VenturEast, Tsing Capital, Samsung Electronics. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bangchak, Alliance Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bharat Light and Power Group, Enevate. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, Manufacturing. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Memphis Meats

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Organic Food
$17M23 Aug 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Swell

Apps
Audio
Podcast
Software
$5M18 Jul 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Vivotech

Mobile
Mobile Payments
NFC
Software
$24M27 Jun 2011 Redwood City, California, United States

Ping Identity

Government
Identity Management
Security
Software
$13M11 Oct 2006 Denver, Colorado, United States

Xfire

Gaming
PC Games
Video Games
$5M20 Apr 2004 Santa Monica, California, United States

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Total investments 15
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 0.94
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Memphis Meats

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Organic Food
$17M23 Aug 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Swell

Apps
Audio
Podcast
Software
$5M18 Jul 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Vivotech

Mobile
Mobile Payments
NFC
Software
$24M27 Jun 2011 Redwood City, California, United States

Ping Identity

Government
Identity Management
Security
Software
$13M11 Oct 2006 Denver, Colorado, United States

Xfire

Gaming
PC Games
Video Games
$5M20 Apr 2004 Santa Monica, California, United States
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