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Engineering Capital

Founders Ashmeet Sidana

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Total investments 67
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 7.44
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 4
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
  • Analytics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zep AI

Enterprise Software
SaaS
$1M27 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Kognitos

$20M29 Nov 2023 -

Nexla

Analytics
Business/Productivity Software
Data Center Automation
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
Systems and Information Management
$18M25 Jul 2023 California, United States

Connectifi

FinTech
Information Technology
Software
$3M06 Jun 2023 Montclair, New Jersey, United States

Parallel

Application Performance Management
Cloud Infrastructure
Developer Tools
Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
Software
$2M14 Mar 2023 -

Kognitos

$6M07 Feb 2023 -

Inigo

Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Software
$4M01 Feb 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

CtrlStack

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$5M15 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Hedgehog

Computer
$3M22 Nov 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States
News
Baffle Raises $20M in Series B to Protect Cloud Data with Celesta Capital as Lead Investor

– Baffle, Inc. announced that it has raised $20m in Series B funding led by new investor Celesta Capital, with contributions from National Grid Partners, Lytical Ventures and Nepenthe Capital, and follow-on investments from True Ventures, Greenspring Associates, Clearvision Ventures, Engineering Capital and Triphammer Ventures.
– Baffle’s no-code, simple-to-deploy security mesh takes a data-centric approach at cloud scale without a performance impact or changes to applications. Baffle is the only data-centric security solution that universally protects data as it’s created, stored and processed, from any source to any destination, on premises or in the cloud, no matter where it lives.

Accessibility Software Company Evinced Raises $17 Million

– Evinced is an accessibility software company.
– The company raised $17m in Series A funding.
M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), BGV, Capital One Ventures, and Engineering Capital participated in the round.

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Total investments 67
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 7.44
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zep AI

Enterprise Software
SaaS
$1M27 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Kognitos

$20M29 Nov 2023 -

Nexla

Analytics
Business/Productivity Software
Data Center Automation
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
Systems and Information Management
$18M25 Jul 2023 California, United States

Connectifi

FinTech
Information Technology
Software
$3M06 Jun 2023 Montclair, New Jersey, United States

Parallel

Application Performance Management
Cloud Infrastructure
Developer Tools
Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
Software
$2M14 Mar 2023 -

Kognitos

$6M07 Feb 2023 -

Inigo

Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Software
$4M01 Feb 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

CtrlStack

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$5M15 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Hedgehog

Computer
$3M22 Nov 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States
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