Firelake Capital Management
45
22M
22
2.05
1
0.51
10
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The venture was found in North America 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 Firelake Capital Management, startups are often financed by OPG Ventures, DFJ, VantagePoint Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trident Capital, DFJ, New Enterprise Associates.
The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2012. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Firelake Capital Management the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Firelake Capital Management performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
This organization was formed by Martin Lagod. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sungevity, Solyndra, HydroPoint Data Systems. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Chemical, Energy Storage. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 45
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 2.05
- Follow on index
- 0.51
- Investments by industry
- Energy (14)
- Manufacturing (13)
- Electronics (12)
- Solar (12)
- Nanotechnology (7) Show 40 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (45)
- Peak activity year
- 2007
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 18
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 64M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.96
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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