GrandBanks Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Needham, United States

Total investments

82

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

39

Rounds per year

3.57

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.52

Exits

19

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareAdvertisingWirelessVirtualizationFlash Storage

Summary

GrandBanks Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Needham.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight InsightSquared, Achievers, Colubris Networks. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Mobile.

This organization was formed by Ryan Moore. The overall number of key employees were 3.

When the investment is from GrandBanks Capital the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2004. This GrandBanks Capital works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the GrandBanks Capital, startups are often financed by Sigma Partners, DFJ, CVP. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sigma Partners, Relay Ventures, Canaan Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Canaan Partners, Kodiak Venture Partners, Sigma Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Cloud/InfrastructureB2B/EnterpriseFintechCybersecurity
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
United States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
82
Lead investments
16
Exits
19
Rounds per year
3.57
Follow on index
0.52
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (25)
  • Software (22)
  • Advertising (18)
  • Information Technology (14)
  • SaaS (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (67)
  • United Kingdom (10)
  • India (3)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2004

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
14M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.06

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
818 Sports & Entertainment 30 May 2013 Sports, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment Early Stage Venture 25M United States, New York, New York
Achievers 28 Sep 2011 Social, Software, SaaS Late Stage Venture 24M United States, California, San Francisco
InsightSquared 03 Feb 2011 Software, Analytics, SaaS, Business Intelligence, CRM Seed 1M United States, Massachusetts, Boston

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