ECA Ventures

Total investments

14

Average round size

77M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.74

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyReal TimeContentMarketingAdvertisingEnergyRenewable EnergyWater

Summary

In 2003 was created ECA Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Sherman Oaks. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this ECA Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from ECA Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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 requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lyft, HouseCanary, The Bouqs Company. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Real Time, Content.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the ECA Ventures, startups are often financed by Quest Venture Partners, Michael Tedesco, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Raven Ventures Australia, Paradigm Talent Agency, Michael Tedesco. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Piton Capital, Pentech Ventures, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.74
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Marketing (4)
  • Content (4)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Advertising (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
  • Australia (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Influential 26 Jul 2016 Information Technology, Content, Marketing, Advertising Early Stage Venture 5M United States, Nevada, Las Vegas

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