HGGC

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

27

Average round size

38M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

1.59

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

12

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesSaaSEnterprise SoftwareData IntegrationContentMarketingConsulting

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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Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
7
Exits
12
Rounds per year
1.59
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • SaaS (4)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • Financial Services (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (22)
  • Canada (2)
  • Germany (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
137M
Group Appearance index
0.52
Avg. company exit year
23
Avg. multiplicator
2.50
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Denodo Technologies 28 Jun 2017 Business/Productivity Software, Broadcasting, Software, Big Data Early Stage Venture United States, California, Palo Alto

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