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Draper Richards

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Total investments 119
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 97
Rounds per year 4.41
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 24
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Non Profit
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • E-Commerce
  • Education
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Code2College

$300K01 Jan 2020 Pflugerville, Texas, United States

Center for Good Food Purchasing

Association
Charity
Non Profit
01 Jan 2018 Berkeley, California, United States

bosWell

Communities
Software
01 Jan 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Service Year

Non Profit
06 Sep 2016 New York, New York, United States

Solutions Journalism Network

01 Jan 2015 New York, New York, United States

STIR Education

Communities
Education
Non Profit
01 Jan 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

RichRelevance

E-Commerce
Internet
Mobile
Personalization
Product Search
Retail
$12M17 Jul 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Mobile
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$16M23 Sep 2008 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Nusym Technology

Graphic Design
Information Technology
Software
$8M10 Sep 2008 California, United States

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Total investments 119
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 4.41
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Code2College

$300K01 Jan 2020 Pflugerville, Texas, United States

Center for Good Food Purchasing

Association
Charity
Non Profit
01 Jan 2018 Berkeley, California, United States

bosWell

Communities
Software
01 Jan 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Service Year

Non Profit
06 Sep 2016 New York, New York, United States

Solutions Journalism Network

01 Jan 2015 New York, New York, United States

STIR Education

Communities
Education
Non Profit
01 Jan 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

RichRelevance

E-Commerce
Internet
Mobile
Personalization
Product Search
Retail
$12M17 Jul 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Mobile
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$16M23 Sep 2008 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Nusym Technology

Graphic Design
Information Technology
Software
$8M10 Sep 2008 California, United States
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