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Guide Ventures

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.32
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Risk Management
  • Network Security
  • Compliance
  • Mobile Apps
  • Financial Services
Summary

Guide Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bellevue. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Guide Ventures, startups are often financed by e.ventures, Wells Fargo Capital Finance, Tall Oaks Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are e.ventures, Tall Oaks Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by e.ventures, Menlo Ventures, Alta Partners.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Internet. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight nCircle Network Security, ShareBuilder, CSA Medical. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this Guide Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CSA Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$16M22 Dec 2013 Maryland, United States

Bocada

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Software
$9M13 Jan 2005 Washington, United States

nCircle Network Security

Compliance
Network Security
Risk Management
$20M11 Oct 2002 San Francisco, California, United States

nCircle Network Security

Compliance
Network Security
Risk Management
$11M31 Aug 2001 San Francisco, California, United States

FizzyLab

Information Services
Internet
$9M23 May 2000 Portland, Oregon, United States

Audio
Media and Entertainment
Music
02 Feb 2000 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.32
Peak activity year 2001
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CSA Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$16M22 Dec 2013 Maryland, United States

Bocada

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Software
$9M13 Jan 2005 Washington, United States

nCircle Network Security

Compliance
Network Security
Risk Management
$20M11 Oct 2002 San Francisco, California, United States

nCircle Network Security

Compliance
Network Security
Risk Management
$11M31 Aug 2001 San Francisco, California, United States

FizzyLab

Information Services
Internet
$9M23 May 2000 Portland, Oregon, United States

Audio
Media and Entertainment
Music
02 Feb 2000 Seattle, Washington, United States
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