MassVentures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Waltham, United States

Total investments

401

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

273

Rounds per year

8.72

Lead investments

47

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

57

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsManufacturingEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

MassVentures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1978. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight OwnerIQ, lifeIMAGE, Applause. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, Enterprise Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous 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 4 partakers. Despite the MassVentures, startups are often financed by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Egan-Managed Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CVP, Egan-Managed Capital, LRVHealth. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CVP, Longworth Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This MassVentures works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Deep Tech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States, Massachusetts
Check size
250K — 500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
401
Lead investments
47
Exits
57
Rounds per year
8.72
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (89)
  • Health Care (64)
  • Information Technology (57)
  • Manufacturing (50)
  • Biotechnology (47)
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Investments by region
  • United States (388)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • India (1)
  • Australia (1)
  • Spain (1)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
45M
Group Appearance index
0.54
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.52
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cyvl.ai 27 Mar 2024 Asset Management, Artificial Intelligence, Civil Engineering Seed 6M United States, Massachusetts, Somerville
Cyvl.ai 27 Mar 2024 Asset Management, Artificial Intelligence, Civil Engineering Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Massachusetts, Somerville
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