Horizon Ventures
Los Altos, United States
47
13M
33
1.88
5
0.30
13
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Horizon Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Los Altos. The venture was found in North America in United States.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Medial EarlySign, WhiteHat Security, Evolve Biosystems. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Horizon Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. This Horizon Ventures works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The fund was created by John Hall. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Horizon Ventures, startups are often financed by InterWest Partners, Horizons Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sigma Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sigma Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Investor Growth Capital Limited.
Investor highlights
- Stage focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 47
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 13
- Rounds per year
- 1.88
- Follow on index
- 0.30
- Investments by industry
- Software (18)
- Manufacturing (10)
- Mobile (8)
- Electronics (6)
- Video (5) Show 83 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (38)
- Israel (5)
- New Zealand (1)
- China (1)
- Germany (1) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2008
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 16
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 27M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.98
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.03
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