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Focus Ventures

Founders Kevin McQuillan

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Total investments 137
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 94
Rounds per year 5.27
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 63
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Advertising
Summary

In 1996 was created Focus Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The average startup value when the investment from Focus Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Opposing the other organizations, this Focus Ventures works on 17 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Aruba Networks, Starent Networks, Isilon Systems The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Network Security, Software.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Focus Ventures, startups are often financed by Icon Ventures, CRV, August Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Benchmark, August Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, Icon Ventures, Sapphire Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Reputation.com

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Internet
Reputation
SaaS
SEO
Social Media
$21M05 Jan 2017 Redwood City, California, United States

Tachyus

Analytics
Big Data
Data Visualization
Enterprise Software
Oil and Gas
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
$4M01 Mar 2016 California, United States

Sojern

Advertising Platforms
Digital Marketing
Marketing
Travel
$10M17 Dec 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Home Delivery Service (HDS Global)

E-Commerce
Industrial Automation
Internet
Retail
Robotics
$1M01 Jan 2013 Palo Alto, California, United States

Sojern

Advertising Platforms
Digital Marketing
Marketing
Travel
$7M27 Mar 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Hara

Cloud Computing
Energy
Enterprise Software
Software
Sustainability
$25M17 May 2011 California, United States

PCH International

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Supply Chain Management
$26M23 Feb 2011 San Francisco, California, United States

Brand.net

Ad Network
Advertising
Brand Marketing
Internet
$14M22 Jun 2010 California, United States

WebVisible

Advertising
Local Advertising
SaaS
Software
$20M11 Feb 2010 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 137
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 5.27
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 63
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Reputation.com

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Internet
Reputation
SaaS
SEO
Social Media
$21M05 Jan 2017 Redwood City, California, United States

Tachyus

Analytics
Big Data
Data Visualization
Enterprise Software
Oil and Gas
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
$4M01 Mar 2016 California, United States

Sojern

Advertising Platforms
Digital Marketing
Marketing
Travel
$10M17 Dec 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Home Delivery Service (HDS Global)

E-Commerce
Industrial Automation
Internet
Retail
Robotics
$1M01 Jan 2013 Palo Alto, California, United States

Sojern

Advertising Platforms
Digital Marketing
Marketing
Travel
$7M27 Mar 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

Hara

Cloud Computing
Energy
Enterprise Software
Software
Sustainability
$25M17 May 2011 California, United States

PCH International

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Supply Chain Management
$26M23 Feb 2011 San Francisco, California, United States

Brand.net

Ad Network
Advertising
Brand Marketing
Internet
$14M22 Jun 2010 California, United States

WebVisible

Advertising
Local Advertising
SaaS
Software
$20M11 Feb 2010 Los Angeles, California, United States
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