Engineering Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Mountain View, United States

Total investments

69

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

7.67

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
Business/Productivity SoftwareSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityCloud Data Services

Summary

In 2015 was created Engineering Capital, which is appeared as VC. 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 Palo Alto.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Engineering Capital, startups are often financed by OUP (Osage University Partners), General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OUP (Osage University Partners), Sutter Hill Ventures, General Catalyst. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OUP (Osage University Partners), General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures.

This Engineering Capital works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Menlo Security, Nexla, Sail Internet. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Network Security, Cloud Data Services. 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 was created by Ashmeet Sidana. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 60000000
Fund raised date
2020-07-09

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
4
Exits
4
Rounds per year
7.67
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (38)
  • Artificial Intelligence (18)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • Machine Learning (13)
  • Analytics (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (63)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
17M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CtrlStack 15 Dec 2022 Internet, Software, Information Technology, Information Services Seed 5M United States, California, San Francisco
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