GF Private Equity

Total investments

17

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

0.85

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingSemiconductorElectronicsInternet of ThingsWirelessOptical CommunicationRFID

Summary

GF Private Equity is the famous VC, which was founded in 2003. 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 Durango.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Redline Communications, Cswitch, NovX. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Wireless, Network Security.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this GF Private Equity performs on 12 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2005. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the GF Private Equity, startups are often financed by ARCH Venture Partners, Madrona Venture Group, ComVentures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ARCH Venture Partners, Viterbi Group, Polaris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ARCH Venture Partners, Viterbi Group, ComVentures.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
3
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.85
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Biotechnology (4)
  • Semiconductor (3)
  • Wireless (3)
  • RFID (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Canada (3)
  • China (2)
Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
15M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.99

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
PacketHop 08 Aug 2005 Mobile, Security, Video, Telecommunications, Wireless Late Stage Venture 10M United States, California

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