El Dorado Ventures

Total investments

122

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

58

Rounds per year

3.30

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.52

Exits

36

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingCloud ComputingSemiconductorTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

El Dorado Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1986. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coupa, Optoro, Air2Web.

The important activity for fund was in 2007. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This El Dorado Ventures works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from El Dorado Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the El Dorado Ventures, startups are often financed by Palomar Ventures, DCM Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vesbridge Partners, Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Palomar Ventures, Crosslink Capital, VantagePoint Capital Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
122
Lead investments
16
Exits
36
Rounds per year
3.30
Follow on index
0.52
Investments by industry
  • Software (54)
  • Enterprise Software (48)
  • Manufacturing (17)
  • Internet (17)
  • Wireless (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (121)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2006

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
45M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.79
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Morphics Technology 29 Jan 2001 Intellectual Property, Wireless, DSP, Communications Infrastructure Late Stage Venture 44M United States, California
Nanosys 09 Nov 2005 Manufacturing, Computer, Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Advanced Materials, TV, Nanotechnology Late Stage Venture 41M United States, California, Milpitas

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