Dolphin Equity Partners

Total investments

31

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

1.29

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.45

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsMobileSaaSMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareTelecommunicationsConsultingWireless

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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Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
5
Exits
15
Rounds per year
1.29
Follow on index
0.45
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (11)
  • Software (10)
  • Mobile (9)
  • Consulting (6)
  • Mobile Apps (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (29)
  • India (2)
Peak activity year
2006

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
68M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
2.37

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Artful Home 27 Feb 2007 E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals, Lifestyle, Art Early Stage Venture 3M United States, Wisconsin, Madison
Gomez, Inc. 01 Oct 2000 Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps, Consulting Early Stage Venture 9M United States, Massachusetts
Huoli 01 Feb 2011 Internet, Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Developer Platform, Telecommunications Early Stage Venture 5M Beijing, Dongcheng District, China
Simple 01 Apr 2023 Consumer Electronics Seed

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