Dynafund Ventures

Total investments

24

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

1.00

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

9

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingSemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsWeb HostingLighting

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
0
Exits
9
Rounds per year
1.00
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (14)
  • Internet (7)
  • Software (7)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Telecommunications (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
28
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Blaze Network Products 13 Nov 2000 Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Optical Communication Early Stage Venture 40M United States, California
ShopTok 02 Feb 2000 E-Commerce, Customer Service Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California, San Francisco

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