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Express Ventures

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 3
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Advertising
  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Telecommunications
  • Wireless
Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Diego.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight EyeSpot, Certona. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Telecommunications.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Reliance Technology Ventures, Investec, Hercules Capital, Inc.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Hercules Capital, Inc., Reliance Technology Ventures, Primus Capital Partners.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Express Ventures works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2006.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Certona

Advertising
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Personalization
Real Time
SaaS
Software
$7M22 Jul 2008 San Diego, California, United States

E-Band Communications

Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M11 Dec 2007 San Diego, California, United States

EyeSpot

Advertising
Entertainment Software
Information Technology
Multimedia and Design Software
Software
Video
$3M01 Oct 2006 Torrance, California, United States

E-Band Communications

Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Wireless
$3M01 Jan 2006 San Diego, California, United States

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Total investments 4
Average round size 5M
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Certona

Advertising
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Personalization
Real Time
SaaS
Software
$7M22 Jul 2008 San Diego, California, United States

E-Band Communications

Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M11 Dec 2007 San Diego, California, United States

EyeSpot

Advertising
Entertainment Software
Information Technology
Multimedia and Design Software
Software
Video
$3M01 Oct 2006 Torrance, California, United States

E-Band Communications

Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Wireless
$3M01 Jan 2006 San Diego, California, United States
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