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Highway 12 Ventures

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Total investments 46
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 2.19
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 10
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Advertising
  • Health Care
  • Analytics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lendio

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Franchise
Lending
$22M24 Mar 2015 Lehi, Utah, United States

GutCheck

Customer Service
Information Technology
Market Research
Software
$4M28 Jan 2014 Denver, Colorado, United States

Lendio

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Franchise
Lending
$4M28 Aug 2013 Lehi, Utah, United States

GutCheck

Customer Service
Information Technology
Market Research
Software
$4M12 Jun 2013 Denver, Colorado, United States

Sphero

Augmented Reality
Consumer Electronics
Gaming
Robotics
Software
$5M25 May 2012 Boulder, Colorado, United States

SendGrid

Business Development
Business Information Systems
CRM
Email
SaaS
Software
$21M17 Jan 2012 Denver, Colorado, United States

Purch

Advertising
B2B
Digital Media
E-Commerce
Lead Generation
Marketplace
Mobile
Publishing
$33M26 Sep 2011 New York, New York, United States

Sphero

Augmented Reality
Consumer Electronics
Gaming
Robotics
Software
$5M07 Apr 2011 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Lendio

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Franchise
Lending
$6M17 Feb 2011 Lehi, Utah, United States

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Total investments 46
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 2.19
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lendio

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Franchise
Lending
$22M24 Mar 2015 Lehi, Utah, United States

GutCheck

Customer Service
Information Technology
Market Research
Software
$4M28 Jan 2014 Denver, Colorado, United States

Lendio

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Franchise
Lending
$4M28 Aug 2013 Lehi, Utah, United States

GutCheck

Customer Service
Information Technology
Market Research
Software
$4M12 Jun 2013 Denver, Colorado, United States

Sphero

Augmented Reality
Consumer Electronics
Gaming
Robotics
Software
$5M25 May 2012 Boulder, Colorado, United States

SendGrid

Business Development
Business Information Systems
CRM
Email
SaaS
Software
$21M17 Jan 2012 Denver, Colorado, United States

Purch

Advertising
B2B
Digital Media
E-Commerce
Lead Generation
Marketplace
Mobile
Publishing
$33M26 Sep 2011 New York, New York, United States

Sphero

Augmented Reality
Consumer Electronics
Gaming
Robotics
Software
$5M07 Apr 2011 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Lendio

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Franchise
Lending
$6M17 Feb 2011 Lehi, Utah, United States
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