HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

235

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

108

Rounds per year

6.71

Lead investments

51

Follow on index

0.54

Exits

56

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurityCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsAdvertising

Summary

In 1989 was created HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

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 no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 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 MuleSoft, Omniture, Insidesales.com Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Security. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Ann Winblad, John Hummer. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Longworth Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Longworth Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners.

The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. This HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
235
Lead investments
51
Exits
56
Rounds per year
6.71
Follow on index
0.54
Investments by industry
  • Software (139)
  • Enterprise Software (72)
  • SaaS (51)
  • Analytics (35)
  • Information Technology (34)
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Investments by region
  • United States (217)
  • Canada (10)
  • Germany (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
134M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.94
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Baynote 12 Jan 2011 Analytics, Machine Learning Late Stage Venture 13M United States, California, San Jose
Marketwired 30 Nov 1990 Analytics, Advertising, Social Media Management Early Stage Venture 17M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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