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Dolphin Equity Partners

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 1.29
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.45
Exits 15
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Consulting
  • Mobile Apps
Summary

Dolphin Equity Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2006. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007. This Dolphin Equity Partners works on 16 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Netifice Communications, Airband Communications Holdings, MaxPreps Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Analytics, Telecommunications.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Dolphin Equity Partners, startups are often financed by Sevin Rosen Funds, Crescendo Ventures, SoftBank Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SoftBank Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, Key Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank Capital, M/C Partners, Dolphin Communications Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Overtone

Analytics
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
$7M19 Apr 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Overtone

Analytics
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
$6M02 Jul 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Artful Home

Art
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Online Portals
Retail
$2M01 Jan 2008 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Mobile Armor

Developer Platform
Mobile Devices
Security
$6M14 Jun 2007 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Airband Communications Holdings

Mobile
Telecommunications
VoIP
Wireless
$12M29 May 2007 Dallas, Texas, United States

Artful Home

Art
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Online Portals
Retail
$3M27 Feb 2007 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

bolt

Big Data
Finance
Insurance
SaaS
$11M11 Aug 2006 New York, United States

MaxPreps

Marketing
Sports
$7M19 Jul 2006 California, United States

Airband Communications Holdings

Mobile
Telecommunications
VoIP
Wireless
$6M14 Mar 2006 Dallas, Texas, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.29
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.45
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Overtone

Analytics
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
$7M19 Apr 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Overtone

Analytics
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
$6M02 Jul 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Artful Home

Art
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Online Portals
Retail
$2M01 Jan 2008 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Mobile Armor

Developer Platform
Mobile Devices
Security
$6M14 Jun 2007 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Airband Communications Holdings

Mobile
Telecommunications
VoIP
Wireless
$12M29 May 2007 Dallas, Texas, United States

Artful Home

Art
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Online Portals
Retail
$3M27 Feb 2007 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

bolt

Big Data
Finance
Insurance
SaaS
$11M11 Aug 2006 New York, United States

MaxPreps

Marketing
Sports
$7M19 Jul 2006 California, United States

Airband Communications Holdings

Mobile
Telecommunications
VoIP
Wireless
$6M14 Mar 2006 Dallas, Texas, United States
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