Gray Ventures

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Atlanta, United States

Total investments

22

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.67

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceCareer PlanningProduct DesignVideoAdvertisingTelecommunicationsWeb HostingInnovation Management

Summary

Gray Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1991. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Atlanta.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline RichRelevance, Overture Networks, BlueBolt Networks Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Media, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Bernard W. Gray.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Gray Ventures, startups are often financed by ATDC, Noro-Moseley Partners, Intersouth Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Noro-Moseley Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, H.I.G. Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ATDC, Sevin Rosen Funds, Intersouth Partners.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2003. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. This Gray Ventures works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseTelecommunications
Stage focus
Series ASeries CSeries BSeed
Geo focus
United States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
2
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.67
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • Video (5)
  • Telecommunications (5)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Career Planning (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (22)
Peak activity year
2002

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
24M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
1.14

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
EGT 30 Jun 2003 Software, Manufacturing, Video, Digital Media Early Stage Venture 7M United States, Atlanta, Georgia
Mox 16 Dec 2022 Software, Finance, Financial Exchanges Seed 20K
QuantHUB 17 Jan 2024 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Early Stage Venture 3M United States, Alabama, Birmingham
Socure 28 Aug 2015 Software, FinTech, Analytics, Machine Learning, SaaS, Cyber Security, Security, Predictive Analytics, Identity Management Early Stage Venture 2M United States, New York, New York
Versa 19 Dec 2018 Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Photo Editing Early Stage Venture Shanghai, China

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