Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)

Summary

IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) is the famous VC, which was founded in 1980. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Snap, Twitter, Slack Technologies. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Cloud Computing, Software.

The fund was created by Reid Dennis. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) performs on 3 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), startups are often financed by Y Combinator, RRE Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, Wellington Management, Venrock. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Redpoint, New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins.