Forrest Binkley & Brown

Total investments

11

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.39

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSupply Chain ManagementTransportationSoftwareMobileAppsManufacturingCloud ComputingWeb HostingWeb Development

Summary

In 1993 was created Forrest Binkley & Brown, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Irvine. The venture was found in North America in United States.

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 Vendavo, iBenefits, Cooking.com. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Chemical. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. This Forrest Binkley & Brown works on 26 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Forrest Binkley & Brown is 100-500 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2000.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Forrest Binkley & Brown, startups are often financed by InnoCal Venture Capital, Vanguard Ventures, Trident Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vanguard Ventures, Trident Capital, Sigma Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Zon Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, Nth Power.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
1
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.39
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Software (6)
  • Web Hosting (2)
  • Web Development (2)
  • Apps (2)
  • Manufacturing (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
16M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.07

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AD PathLabs 10 Feb 2003 Health Care, Medical Late Stage Venture 8M United States, California
Vendavo 15 Dec 1999 Software, Analytics, B2B, Enterprise Software Early Stage Venture 30M United States, Colorado, Denver

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