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Ignition Capital

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical
  • Biotechnology
Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Seattle.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This Ignition Capital works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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 Spoken Communications, Tier 3 Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ignition Capital, startups are often financed by Ignition Partners, Qiming Venture Partners, Blue Haven Initiative. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are LionRock Capital (Hong Kong), Ignition Partners, Qiming Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ignition Partners, Trinity Capital Investment, Riverwood Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PaxVax

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$12M28 Jul 2014 Maryland, United States

YPX Cayman Holdings

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Service Industry
$11M01 Nov 2012 Shanghai, China

Tier 3

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
IaaS
PaaS
Private Cloud
Software
$10M04 Oct 2012 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Spoken Communications

Cloud Infrastructure
Customer Service
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$11M07 Feb 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

Spoken Communications

Cloud Infrastructure
Customer Service
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$4M15 Dec 2010 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PaxVax

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$12M28 Jul 2014 Maryland, United States

YPX Cayman Holdings

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Service Industry
$11M01 Nov 2012 Shanghai, China

Tier 3

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
IaaS
PaaS
Private Cloud
Software
$10M04 Oct 2012 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Spoken Communications

Cloud Infrastructure
Customer Service
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$11M07 Feb 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

Spoken Communications

Cloud Infrastructure
Customer Service
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$4M15 Dec 2010 Seattle, Washington, United States
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