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Hillcrest Venture Partners

Founders Courtney Hall Darin Chen JULIAN LIN

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 2
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Telecommunications
  • Analytics
Summary

In 2010 was created Hillcrest Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Glendale. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Hillcrest Venture Partners performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Hillcrest Venture Partners is 1-5 millions dollars.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Cloud Data Services. 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 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Phoenix ET, GenieDB, Phizzle

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Hillcrest Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Frontier Venture Capital, Signia Venture Partners, Kortschak Investments, L.P.. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Nexus Ventures, Vaidya Capital Partners, Upslope Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Portland Seed Fund, XL Innovate, Walter Winshall.

This organization was formed by Courtney Hall, Darin Chen, JULIAN LIN. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VirtuLocity Networks

Information Technology
Internet
Mobile
Software
Telecommunications
01 Mar 2017 Pleasanton, California, United States

MomentFeed

Advertising
Analytics
Digital Media
Local
Local Business
Mobile Advertising
SaaS
Social Media Marketing
$16M24 Feb 2017 Santa Monica, California, United States

NS8

Analytics
Big Data
Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Security
$900K05 Jan 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Phizzle

Aerospace
Autonomous Vehicles
Industrial Automation
Oil and Gas
Pharmaceutical
Smart Cities
Telecommunications
Transportation
$6M23 Mar 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Notion

Apps
Home Improvement
Internet of Things
Security
Smart Home
Software
Wireless
$2M26 May 2015 Denver, Colorado, United States

Departing

Insurance
Life Insurance
Service Industry
$1M23 Oct 2013 Irving, Texas, United States

GenieDB

Cloud Data Services
Database
Information Technology
$1M02 Apr 2013 San Juan Capistrano, California, United States

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Total investments 13
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VirtuLocity Networks

Information Technology
Internet
Mobile
Software
Telecommunications
01 Mar 2017 Pleasanton, California, United States

MomentFeed

Advertising
Analytics
Digital Media
Local
Local Business
Mobile Advertising
SaaS
Social Media Marketing
$16M24 Feb 2017 Santa Monica, California, United States

NS8

Analytics
Big Data
Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Security
$900K05 Jan 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Phizzle

Aerospace
Autonomous Vehicles
Industrial Automation
Oil and Gas
Pharmaceutical
Smart Cities
Telecommunications
Transportation
$6M23 Mar 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Notion

Apps
Home Improvement
Internet of Things
Security
Smart Home
Software
Wireless
$2M26 May 2015 Denver, Colorado, United States

Departing

Insurance
Life Insurance
Service Industry
$1M23 Oct 2013 Irving, Texas, United States

GenieDB

Cloud Data Services
Database
Information Technology
$1M02 Apr 2013 San Juan Capistrano, California, United States
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