Focus Ventures
137
26M
94
5.27
22
0.31
63
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- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 137
- Lead investments
- 22
- Exits
- 63
- Rounds per year
- 5.27
- Follow on index
- 0.31
- Investments by industry
- Software (59)
- Enterprise Software (37)
- Internet (26)
- Information Technology (20)
- Advertising (15) Show 123 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (135)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 5
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 204M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.96
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.41
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reputation.com | 05 Jan 2017 | Internet, Analytics, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Social Media, SEO, Reputation | Early Stage Venture | 21M | United States, California, Redwood City |
| Teknovus | 29 Aug 2005 | Software, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Semiconductor | Late Stage Venture | 13M | United States, California |
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