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Masthead Venture Partners

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Total investments 52
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 2.00
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.60
Exits 12
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet
  • Mobile
Summary

In 1998 was created Masthead Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Danvers. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Masthead Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Mobius Venture Capital, Weber Capital, Oak Investment Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Canaan Partners, Weber Capital, Oak Investment Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mobius Venture Capital, Weber Capital, Venrock.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight EXPO, Tremor Network, Nexaweb Inc.. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketing, Publishing. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

This Masthead Venture Partners works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Masthead Venture Partners is 10-50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2006. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Centric Software

Fashion
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Information Technology
Outdoors
Retail
Software
Sporting Goods
$19M05 Dec 2012 Campbell, California, United States

Centric Software

Fashion
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Information Technology
Outdoors
Retail
Software
Sporting Goods
$7M23 Feb 2011 Campbell, California, United States

Tremor Video - Software Platform

Advertising
Marketing
Software
$18M19 Feb 2009 New City, New York, United States

Telaria

Advertising
Digital Media
Marketing
Software
Video
$18M09 Feb 2009 New York, New York, United States

Chumby

Developer Tools
Hardware
Software
$12M31 Mar 2008 San Diego, California, United States

Tizor Systems

Education
Enterprise Software
Security
$8M12 Feb 2008 Massachusetts, United States

Centric Software

Fashion
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Information Technology
Outdoors
Retail
Software
Sporting Goods
$14M15 Jan 2008 Campbell, California, United States

Telaria

Advertising
Digital Media
Marketing
Software
Video
$11M01 Jan 2008 New York, New York, United States

Foneshow

Mobile
Music
Video Streaming
$1M01 Sep 2007 Portland, Maine, United States

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Total investments 52
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 2.00
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.60
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Centric Software

Fashion
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Information Technology
Outdoors
Retail
Software
Sporting Goods
$19M05 Dec 2012 Campbell, California, United States

Centric Software

Fashion
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Information Technology
Outdoors
Retail
Software
Sporting Goods
$7M23 Feb 2011 Campbell, California, United States

Tremor Video - Software Platform

Advertising
Marketing
Software
$18M19 Feb 2009 New City, New York, United States

Telaria

Advertising
Digital Media
Marketing
Software
Video
$18M09 Feb 2009 New York, New York, United States

Chumby

Developer Tools
Hardware
Software
$12M31 Mar 2008 San Diego, California, United States

Tizor Systems

Education
Enterprise Software
Security
$8M12 Feb 2008 Massachusetts, United States

Centric Software

Fashion
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Information Technology
Outdoors
Retail
Software
Sporting Goods
$14M15 Jan 2008 Campbell, California, United States

Telaria

Advertising
Digital Media
Marketing
Software
Video
$11M01 Jan 2008 New York, New York, United States

Foneshow

Mobile
Music
Video Streaming
$1M01 Sep 2007 Portland, Maine, United States
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