Investment Group of Santa Barbara

Total investments

18

Average round size

45M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.33

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsB2BE-LearningSaaSTrainingMarketingAdvertisingCRM

Summary

Investment Group of Santa Barbara is the famous VC, which was founded in 1968. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Santa Barbara.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Investment Group of Santa Barbara, startups are often financed by e.ventures, Wolfson Group, TenOneTen Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are e.ventures, Wolfson Group, TenOneTen Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scale Venture Partners, Madrona Venture Group, .406 Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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 specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, CRM. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Onapsis, BuildOps, BuildOps Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Investment Group of Santa Barbara works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
3
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.33
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • SaaS (8)
  • Internet (4)
  • CRM (3)
  • Advertising (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (17)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
2

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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
0.78
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.95

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bizible 01 Sep 2011 Internet, Analytics, SaaS, Marketing, Advertising, CRM Seed 330K United States, Washington, Seattle
Solvvy 12 Dec 2016 Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS, Customer Service Seed 4M United States, California

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