Highway 12 Ventures

Total investments

46

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

2.19

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileGamingHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareMarketingAdvertising

Summary

Highway 12 Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Boise.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Highway 12 Ventures, startups are often financed by Village Ventures, Techstars, Foundry Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foundry Group, Pelion Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Foundry Group, Pelion Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures.

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 exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SendGrid, Cradlepoint, Purch Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, Enterprise Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Highway 12 Ventures performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Highway 12 Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2011.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
46
Lead investments
7
Exits
10
Rounds per year
2.19
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Software (30)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • Advertising (7)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Analytics (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
Peak activity year
2011
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
172M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
4.61
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CoPromote 10 Feb 2014 Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Mobile Advertising Seed 1M United States, New York
Purch 01 Jul 2008 Publishing, E-Commerce, B2B, Mobile, Marketplace, Advertising, Digital Media, Lead Generation Early Stage Venture 6M United States, New York, New York
SendGrid 17 Jan 2012 Software, SaaS, Business Development, CRM, Business Information Systems, Email Early Stage Venture 21M United States, Colorado, Denver

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