Diamondhead Ventures
31
12M
15
1.41
3
0.52
12
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Diamondhead Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2006. Opposing the other organizations, this Diamondhead Ventures works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2008. The typical startup value when the investment from Diamondhead Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Diamondhead Ventures, startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Ampersand Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Menlo Ventures, JK&B Capital, Ampersand Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, Menlo Ventures, Ampersand Capital Partners.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Security, Wireless. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BayPackets, FirstRain, Truviso. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
The current fund was established by David Lane. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 31
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 12
- Rounds per year
- 1.41
- Follow on index
- 0.52
- Investments by industry
- Software (20)
- Security (11)
- Enterprise Software (11)
- Information Technology (10)
- Wireless (8) Show 22 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (31)
- Peak activity year
- 2003
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 20
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 45M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.14
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biodel AG | 01 Sep 2015 | Manufacturing, AgTech, Farming | Seed | 494K | United States, Arizona, Maricopa |
| 14 Apr 2005 | Analytics, Retail Technology, Security | Early Stage Venture | 7M | United States, Menlo Park, California | |
| UPEK | 17 Mar 2004 | Network Security, Security, Biometrics | Early Stage Venture | 20M | United States, California |
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