Hella Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

14

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

1.75

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.14

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningBig DataRoboticsDronesElectronicsInternet of Things

Summary

Hella Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Sunnyvale. The company was established in North America in United States. Hella Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2017.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Hella Ventures, startups are often financed by Velocity, SeedSumo, Techstars New York City Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Volvo Group Venture Capital, Verizon Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Giesecke+Devrient Ventures.

The current fund was established by Jason Waterman. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cyber Security, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Excelfore Corporation, Light Field Lab, CarForce. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
MobilityDeep TechManufacturing
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeries C
Geo focus
CanadaGermanyIsraelUnited States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
1.75
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Automotive (8)
  • Software (5)
  • Machine Learning (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Internet of Things (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
  • Canada (1)
  • Germany (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
17M
Group Appearance index
0.71

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Oculii 06 May 2021 Automotive, Robotics, Drones, Sensor Early Stage Venture 55M United States, Oregon

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