Gray Ventures
Private equity
Active
Atlanta, United States
22
6M
14
0.67
2
0.36
5
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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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) Show 30 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (22)
- Peak activity year
- 2002
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- 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 |
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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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