Fenwick & West

Status

Active

Location

Mountain View, United States

Total investments

21

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

0.40

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

3

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityAugmented RealityVideo GamesLaw Enforcement

Summary

In 1972 was created Fenwick & West, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Mountain View. The company was established in North America in United States.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The important activity for fund was in 2010. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Fenwick & West works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6 participants. Despite the Fenwick & West, startups are often financed by DFJ, Band of Angels, Western Technology Investment. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, FLOODGATE, Endeavour Investment Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Maveron, Innovacom.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Handle Financial, Ustream, DECENT 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 has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Intelligent Systems, Augmented Reality.

This organization was formed by Joel Kellman. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.40
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • Financial Services (3)
  • Video Games (2)
  • Law Enforcement (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
69M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.99
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SingleFile Technologies 19 Mar 2024 Law Enforcement Seed 6M United States, Washington, Seattle
Spreadsheet.com 21 Jul 2021 Enterprise, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Project Management, Enterprise Applications, Task Management, Database Seed 5M United States, California, San Jose
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