Fjord Ventures

Total investments

12

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.75

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveBiotechnologyHealth CareWellnessMedicalAutonomous VehiclesElectronicsInnovation ManagementElectric VehicleMechanical Engineering

Summary

In 2005 was created Fjord 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 Laguna Hills.

This organization was formed by Olav Bergheim. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Fjord Ventures performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Fjord Ventures, startups are often financed by OrbiMed, Neomed Management, Versant Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OrbiMed, Neomed Management, Meritech Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OrbiMed, Meritech Capital Partners, Neomed Management.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sonendo, Tesla, Glaukos. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy, Wellness. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.75
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Medical (10)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Biotechnology (6)
  • Wellness (2)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
83M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sonendo 04 Jun 2013 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Late Stage Venture 18M United States, California

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