Garage Technology Ventures

Summary

Garage Technology Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Search Engine, Automotive. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline WhiteHat Security, Gator.com, Acerta Analytics Solutions Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Garage Technology Ventures, startups are often financed by Advanced Technology Ventures, The Halo Fund, The Angels' Forum. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Halo Fund, The Angels' Forum, Cardinal Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Foundation Capital, Storm Ventures, Kleiner Perkins.

This organization was formed by Bill Reichert, Craig Johnson, Guy Kawasaki. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Garage Technology Ventures performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Garage Technology Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars.