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HGGC

Founders Bob Gay Gregory M. Benson Richard Lawson Steve Young

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$38M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 1.59
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 12
Key employees 11
http://www.hggc.com
Palo Alto, California, United States
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Financial Services
Summary

HGGC appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

This organization was formed by Bob Gay, Gregory M. Benson, Richard Lawson, Steve Young.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This HGGC works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight hybris, MyWebGrocer. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the HGGC, startups are often financed by Tech Coast Angels, Stripes. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TA Associates, Stripes, Partners Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Owl Rock Capital Partners, Crescent Capital, Antares Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aceable

E-Learning
EdTech
Mobile
Real Estate
Training
$50M17 Dec 2020
HGGC
 Austin, Texas, United States

Denodo Technologies

Big Data
Broadcasting
Business/Productivity Software
Software
28 Jun 2017
HGGC
 Palo Alto, California, United States

hybris

Content
Data Integration
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$30M05 Mar 2013
83North
Meritech Capital Partners
HGGC
 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Total investments 27
Average round size 38M
Rounds per year 1.59
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.52

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aceable

E-Learning
EdTech
Mobile
Real Estate
Training
$50M17 Dec 2020
HGGC
 Austin, Texas, United States

Denodo Technologies

Big Data
Broadcasting
Business/Productivity Software
Software
28 Jun 2017
HGGC
 Palo Alto, California, United States

hybris

Content
Data Integration
E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$30M05 Mar 2013
83North
Meritech Capital Partners
HGGC
 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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