Lucas Venture Group

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

40

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

1.03

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinTechHealth CareSaaSCommunitiesManufacturingMedicalPrivate Social NetworkingProfessional Networking

Summary

In 1985 was created Lucas Venture Group, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Donald Lucas. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Lucas Venture Group, startups are often financed by FLOODGATE, Social Capital, Manatt Venture Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Manatt Venture Fund, Cota Capital, Walden Riverwood Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cota Capital, Menlo Ventures, Manatt Venture Fund.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Service Industry, Logistics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chegg, Katerra, Berkeley Lights. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Lucas Venture Group performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Lucas Venture Group is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCommunity/Social networkFintech Show 3 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
1M — 20M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
3
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.03
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Health Care (8)
  • Internet (6)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • SaaS (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (40)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
121M
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.12
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Chptr 09 Nov 2023 Internet, News, Social Media Seed 1M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Hologram 04 Feb 2019 Cloud Data Services, Developer Tools, Telecommunications, Internet of Things, Mobile Devices, Communication Hardware Early Stage Venture 0 United States, Illinois, Chicago
Truebill 23 Oct 2019 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Personal Finance, Billing Early Stage Venture 15M United States, Maryland, Silver Spring

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