Gideon Hixon Fund

Total investments

9

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

8

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareSaaSLife ScienceAdvertisingRenewable EnergyChemicalNutritionSolar

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Santa Barbara. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Gideon Hixon Fund, startups are often financed by Mercury Fund, DFJ, Mike Pugh. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Frontier Venture Capital, Mercury Fund, Crosscut Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Health Evolution Partners, Mercury Fund, Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Gideon Hixon Fund is 10-50 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Nutrition, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Prolacta Bioscience, Edufii, BOOM! Entertainment. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (3)
  • Software (3)
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Advertising (2)
  • Life Science (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Edufii 09 Sep 2014 SaaS, EdTech, Education, Sports, Private Social Networking Early Stage Venture 1M United States, California

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