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InstantScale Ventures

Founders Chad Cardenas Hayes Drumwright

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$49M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.60
Lead investments 0
Exits 4
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Cloud Computing
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
Summary

In 2013 was created InstantScale Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Irvine. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Chad Cardenas, Hayes Drumwright. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from InstantScale Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This InstantScale Ventures works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the InstantScale Ventures, startups are often financed by Warburg Pincus, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GV, Battery Ventures, Wing Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founders Circle Capital, Sequoia Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CrowdStrike, AppDynamics, Cohesity. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Business Intelligence. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive 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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Skyport Systems

Big Data
Information Services
Information Technology
Security
$30M15 Mar 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

POPin

Apps
Mobile
Software
$6M09 Nov 2015 Irvine, California, United States

Cohesity

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Data Center
Data Storage
Information Technology
$55M17 Jun 2015 San Jose, California, United States

CliQr Technologies

Cloud Computing
IaaS
Information Technology
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$20M07 Apr 2015 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 49M
Rounds per year 0.60
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Skyport Systems

Big Data
Information Services
Information Technology
Security
$30M15 Mar 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

POPin

Apps
Mobile
Software
$6M09 Nov 2015 Irvine, California, United States

Cohesity

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Data Center
Data Storage
Information Technology
$55M17 Jun 2015 San Jose, California, United States

CliQr Technologies

Cloud Computing
IaaS
Information Technology
PaaS
SaaS
Software
$20M07 Apr 2015 San Jose, California, United States
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