Leapfrog Ventures

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

51

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

2.12

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

18

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileBig DataCyber SecuritySecurityComputer

Summary

In 1999 was created Leapfrog Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.

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 no specific favorite 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight RedSeal, Zebit UK LTD, Vivato. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Information Technology.

This organization was formed by Pete Sinclair.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Leapfrog Ventures, startups are often financed by InterWest Partners, Venrock, Sutter Hill Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are InterWest Partners, Venrock, Sutter Hill Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by InterWest Partners, Venrock, Sutter Hill Ventures.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Leapfrog Ventures works on 5 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Leapfrog Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The top activity for fund was in 2006.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Analytics

Total investments
51
Lead investments
2
Exits
18
Rounds per year
2.12
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (21)
  • Analytics (15)
  • Mobile (11)
  • Security (10)
  • Big Data (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
  • India (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Rwanda (2)
Peak activity year
2006

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
19M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.53

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ace Metrix 16 Dec 2009 Analytics, Real Time, Advertising, TV Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California
exuus ltd 13 Aug 2018 Communities, Big Data, Lifestyle, Non Profit, Data Mining, Data Visualization Seed 50K Southern Province, Huye, Rwanda
Qingda High-end 05 Aug 2022 Manufacturing, Chemical, Industrial Seed Jiangxi, Jiujiang, China

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