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Dynafund Ventures

Founders Richard Whiting

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 9
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Telecommunications
Summary

Dynafund Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Torrance.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Dynafund Ventures, startups are often financed by Vanguard Ventures, DFJ, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vanguard Ventures, DFJ, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, Vanguard Ventures, Pyramid Technology Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Semiconductor, Telecommunications. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Luminous Networks, AppGenesys, Cooking.com. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2005. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Dynafund Ventures performs on 7 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2000.

The current fund was established by Richard Whiting. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Microfabrica

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$22M04 Sep 2008 Los Angeles, California, United States

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$21M14 Jul 2006 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Troika Networks

Information Technology
Manufacturing
Software
Web Hosting
$14M14 Jul 2005 California, United States

Microfabrica

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$15M02 Mar 2004 Los Angeles, California, United States

Iridigm Display Corporation

Information Technology
Software
$13M16 Oct 2001 San Diego, California, United States

Microfabrica

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$11M26 Jan 2001 Los Angeles, California, United States

Blaze Network Products

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$40M13 Nov 2000 California, United States

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$109M26 Sep 2000 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Gluecode Software

Open Source
Software
$5M27 Jul 2000 California, United States

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Total investments 24
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Microfabrica

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$22M04 Sep 2008 Los Angeles, California, United States

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$21M14 Jul 2006 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Troika Networks

Information Technology
Manufacturing
Software
Web Hosting
$14M14 Jul 2005 California, United States

Microfabrica

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$15M02 Mar 2004 Los Angeles, California, United States

Iridigm Display Corporation

Information Technology
Software
$13M16 Oct 2001 San Diego, California, United States

Microfabrica

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$11M26 Jan 2001 Los Angeles, California, United States

Blaze Network Products

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$40M13 Nov 2000 California, United States

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$109M26 Sep 2000 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Gluecode Software

Open Source
Software
$5M27 Jul 2000 California, United States
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