Mellon Ventures
61
24M
46
2.18
15
0.25
25
- Areas of investment
Summary
Mellon Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Pittsburgh. The company was established in North America in United States.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. This Mellon Ventures works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The average startup value when the investment from Mellon Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2003. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Risk Management, Telecommunications. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cortera, InvestorForce, iVivity.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Mellon Ventures, startups are often financed by Nimes Capital, ATDC, Morgenthaler Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Moore Capital, Nimes Capital, Sigma Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Actua Corporation, Nimes Capital, Arcturus Capital.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 61
- Lead investments
- 15
- Exits
- 25
- Rounds per year
- 2.18
- Follow on index
- 0.25
- Investments by industry
- Internet (15)
- Software (13)
- Telecommunications (9)
- Information Technology (9)
- Hardware (8) Show 70 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (56)
- Indonesia (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 22
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 52M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.92
- Avg. company exit year
- 14
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.43
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iVivity | 27 Sep 2006 | Manufacturing, Hardware | Late Stage Venture | 10M | United States, Georgia |
| Storactive | 11 Sep 2001 | Software, Enterprise, Enterprise Software, Computer | Early Stage Venture | 11M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
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