EPIC Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Salt Lake City, United States

Total investments

201

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

110

Rounds per year

6.70

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.45

Exits

33

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecuritySecurityCloud Computing

Summary

In 1994 was created EPIC Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Salt Lake City.

This organization was formed by Kent Madsen, Nick Efstratis, Tim Draper, Todd Stevens. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

This EPIC Ventures works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from EPIC Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the EPIC Ventures, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, DFJ, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trident Capital, TomorrowVentures, Sun Mountain Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tullis Health Investors, Trident Capital, Intel Capital.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zenefits, Insidesales.com, Ancestry Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Security.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseHealthcareCybersecurityFuture of Work
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Check size
250K — 500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
201
Lead investments
15
Exits
33
Rounds per year
6.70
Follow on index
0.45
Investments by industry
  • Software (93)
  • Information Technology (40)
  • SaaS (40)
  • Health Care (36)
  • Enterprise Software (31)
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Investments by region
  • United States (189)
  • Canada (3)
  • Spain (1)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
125M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
3.53
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Culmination Bio 30 Nov 2023 Biotechnology, Health Care Early Stage Venture 10M
Sewer AI 18 Jun 2024 Infrastructure, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California, San Francisco

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