Icon Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

207

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

104

Rounds per year

9.86

Lead investments

41

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

59

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity

Summary

Icon Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2003. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Security. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Palo Alto Networks, FireEye, Infinera Corporation The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The top activity for fund was in 2010. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Icon Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from Icon Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Icon Ventures, startups are often financed by DAG Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Matrix Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Menlo Ventures, Greylock Partners, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bessemer Venture Partners, Venrock, GV.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataSecurityConsumer/RetailB2B/EnterpriseHealthcare
Stage focus
SeedSeries CSeries B

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 375000000
Fund raised date
2018-10-20

Analytics

Total investments
207
Lead investments
41
Exits
59
Rounds per year
9.86
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (75)
  • Security (32)
  • Information Technology (30)
  • Cyber Security (30)
  • Enterprise Software (29)
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Investments by region
  • United States (197)
  • Canada (4)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Israel (1)
  • China (1)
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Peak activity year
2010
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
301M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.47
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DataRails 10 Mar 2022 Business/Productivity Software, Media and Information Services (B2B), Software, FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS, Compliance Early Stage Venture 50M Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Midi Health 24 Apr 2024 Health Care, Medical, Women's Early Stage Venture 60M United States, Menlo Park, California

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