Fort Ross Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

41

Average round size

117M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

5.12

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareComputer

Summary

FortRoss Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The venture was found in North America in Cayman Islands. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Grand Cayman.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from FortRoss Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this FortRoss Ventures performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

This organization was formed by Victor Orlovski, Yau0421u0403ov Nachmanovich. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the FortRoss Ventures, startups are often financed by Marker, Shasta Ventures, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Westlake Ventures, Westlake Venture Partners, SVB Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Overstock, Zanadu Capital Partners, SBI Group.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Fraud Detection, Financial Services. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, LendingHome, Esperanto Technologies. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
AlbaniaBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaCroatiaCzechia Show 16 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 100000000
Fund raised date
2021-11-17

Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
7
Exits
8
Rounds per year
5.12
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (12)
  • Software (10)
  • FinTech (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Enterprise Software (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (26)
  • Israel (7)
  • Russia (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
3.21
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Deci AI 13 Jul 2022 Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, Developer Platform, Video, Image Recognition, Natural Language Processing Seed Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Endstate 04 Jul 2022 Seed 5M
SegmentStream 04 Feb 2022 Software, Analytics, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Integration, Marketing Seed 2M England, London, United Kingdom

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