Foundry Group

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boulder, United States

Total investments

289

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

161

Rounds per year

20.64

Lead investments

99

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

59

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCloud ComputingAdvertising

Summary

In 2006 was created Foundry Group, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boulder.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Foundry Group is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this Foundry Group performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The fund was created by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson, Ryan McIntyre, Seth Levine. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Foundry Group, startups are often financed by Battery Ventures, Spark Capital, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SK Ventures, FG Angels, Costanoa Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, Golden Ventures, Battery Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Enterprise Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zynga, SendGrid, AvidXchange. The fund has no exact preference in some 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 a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 500000000
Fund raised date
2023-09-05

Analytics

Total investments
289
Lead investments
99
Exits
59
Rounds per year
20.64
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (88)
  • Advertising (48)
  • Enterprise Software (44)
  • Internet (41)
  • Analytics (40)
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Investments by region
  • United States (280)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Canada (3)
  • Kenya (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
71M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
2.21
Strategy success index
0.50

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