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Leader Ventures

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 1.11
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 11
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Advertising
  • Social Media
Summary

In 2005 was created Leader Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

This Leader Ventures works on 25 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MobiTV, Avalanche Technology, VoloMedia. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer, Video. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Leader Ventures, startups are often financed by Menlo Ventures, GrandBanks Capital, Redpoint. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Silicon Valley Bank, DCM Ventures, Vulcan Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vulcan Capital, Thomvest Ventures, Rogers Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dynair Korea

CleanTech
Product Design
$69K31 Oct 2019 Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea

Sky Wing

Hardware
$290K20 Nov 2018 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Avalanche Technology

Computer
Flash Storage
Information Technology
$11M23 Jan 2012 Fremont, California, United States

Vindicia

Analytics
Billing
CRM
E-Commerce
Freemium
Payments
SaaS
Software
Subscription Service
Transaction Processing
$5M31 Mar 2008 California, United States

VoloMedia

Advertising
Social Media
Video
$3M18 Mar 2008 Sunnyvale, California, United States

SideStep

Advertising
Facebook
Search Engine
Travel
$15M01 Feb 2007 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 1.11
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.45

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dynair Korea

CleanTech
Product Design
$69K31 Oct 2019 Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea

Sky Wing

Hardware
$290K20 Nov 2018 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Avalanche Technology

Computer
Flash Storage
Information Technology
$11M23 Jan 2012 Fremont, California, United States

Vindicia

Analytics
Billing
CRM
E-Commerce
Freemium
Payments
SaaS
Software
Subscription Service
Transaction Processing
$5M31 Mar 2008 California, United States

VoloMedia

Advertising
Social Media
Video
$3M18 Mar 2008 Sunnyvale, California, United States

SideStep

Advertising
Facebook
Search Engine
Travel
$15M01 Feb 2007 San Jose, California, United States
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