InstantScale Ventures

Total investments

6

Average round size

49M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.60

Exits

4

Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileInformation ServicesSaaSAppsCloud ComputingPaaSIaaS

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
6
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.60
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Software (3)
  • Cloud Computing (2)
  • SaaS (2)
  • Analytics (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (6)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
11.05
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Skyport Systems 15 Mar 2016 Information Technology, Information Services, Big Data, Security Late Stage Venture 30M United States, California, Mountain View
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