Draper Richards
119
5M
97
4.41
8
0.18
24
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Draper Richards is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Draper Richards works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2007. The average startup value when the investment from Draper Richards is 10-50 millions dollars.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Skype, OpenTable, SquareTrade The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Telecommunications, Internet. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Draper Richards, startups are often financed by Worldview Technology Partners, Tugboat Ventures, ONSET Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Menlo Ventures, Draper Associates, WI Harper Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital, Crosslink Capital.
Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 119
- Lead investments
- 8
- Exits
- 24
- Rounds per year
- 4.41
- Follow on index
- 0.18
- Investments by industry
- Non Profit (28)
- Software (27)
- Mobile (16)
- E-Commerce (16)
- Education (13) Show 126 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (103)
- United Kingdom (4)
- Switzerland (1)
- China (1)
- Luxembourg (1) Show 6 more
- Peak activity year
- 2007
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 13
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 15M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.55
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.83
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RichRelevance | 17 Jul 2009 | E-Commerce, Internet, Retail, Mobile, Personalization, Product Search | Late Stage Venture | 12M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| STIR Education | 01 Jan 2014 | Communities, Education, Non Profit | Seed | England, London, United Kingdom |
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