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Horizon Ventures

Founders John Hall

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Total investments 47
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 1.88
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 13
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Mobile
  • Electronics
  • Video
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kneron

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$49M26 Sep 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Sandbox Banking

Banking
Data Integration
Financial Services
FinTech
Innovation Management
$4M17 Nov 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Kytopen

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
$30M28 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

what3words

Automotive
Geospatial
GPS
Infrastructure
Location Based Services
Logistics
Mapping Services
Mobile
Navigation
Software
29 Apr 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Windward

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Insurance
Machine Learning
Shipping
Software
$16M01 Jul 2018 Tel Aviv District

Evolve Biosystems

Biotechnology
Medical
Medical Device
$40M13 Jun 2018 California, United States

Video
17 Apr 2018 Shanghai, China

Smash.gg

Computer
eSports
Internet
Software
$11M02 Aug 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Soul Machines

Artificial Intelligence
E-Learning
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Reality
$7M22 Nov 2016 Auckland, New Zealand

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Total investments 47
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 1.88
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kneron

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$49M26 Sep 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Sandbox Banking

Banking
Data Integration
Financial Services
FinTech
Innovation Management
$4M17 Nov 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Kytopen

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
$30M28 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

what3words

Automotive
Geospatial
GPS
Infrastructure
Location Based Services
Logistics
Mapping Services
Mobile
Navigation
Software
29 Apr 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Windward

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Insurance
Machine Learning
Shipping
Software
$16M01 Jul 2018 Tel Aviv District

Evolve Biosystems

Biotechnology
Medical
Medical Device
$40M13 Jun 2018 California, United States

Video
17 Apr 2018 Shanghai, China

Smash.gg

Computer
eSports
Internet
Software
$11M02 Aug 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Soul Machines

Artificial Intelligence
E-Learning
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Reality
$7M22 Nov 2016 Auckland, New Zealand
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