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GF Private Equity

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.85
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 8
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Semiconductor
  • Wireless
  • RFID
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Venda

B2B
B2C
E-Commerce
$6M26 Jan 2009 England

NovX

Biotechnology
$7M02 May 2008 Markham, Ontario, Canada

KOTURA

Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Semiconductor
$10M07 Feb 2008 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

Ahura Scientific

Biotechnology
Chemical
Public Safety
$7M09 Mar 2007 Maine, United States

Venda

B2B
B2C
E-Commerce
$20M13 Dec 2006 England

Cswitch

Network Security
Semiconductor
Wireless
$30M30 May 2006 Cupertino, California, United States

KOTURA

Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Semiconductor
$13M07 Sep 2005 Guangdong Province

PacketHop

Mobile
Security
Telecommunications
Video
Wireless
$10M08 Aug 2005 California, United States

Ahura Scientific

Biotechnology
Chemical
Public Safety
$10M19 Jan 2005 Maine, United States

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Total investments 17
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 0.85
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Venda

B2B
B2C
E-Commerce
$6M26 Jan 2009 England

NovX

Biotechnology
$7M02 May 2008 Markham, Ontario, Canada

KOTURA

Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Semiconductor
$10M07 Feb 2008 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

Ahura Scientific

Biotechnology
Chemical
Public Safety
$7M09 Mar 2007 Maine, United States

Venda

B2B
B2C
E-Commerce
$20M13 Dec 2006 England

Cswitch

Network Security
Semiconductor
Wireless
$30M30 May 2006 Cupertino, California, United States

KOTURA

Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Semiconductor
$13M07 Sep 2005 Guangdong Province

PacketHop

Mobile
Security
Telecommunications
Video
Wireless
$10M08 Aug 2005 California, United States

Ahura Scientific

Biotechnology
Chemical
Public Safety
$10M19 Jan 2005 Maine, United States
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