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Minor Ventures

Founders Halsey Minor

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.69
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Search Engine
  • Software
  • File Sharing
  • Online Portals
  • Cloud Computing
Summary

Minor Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. 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 Kareo, OpenDNS, GrandCentral. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Security. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The high activity for fund was in 2006. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Minor Ventures works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Halsey Minor. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. Despite the Minor Ventures, startups are often financed by Center for Innovative Technology, CIT GAP Funds. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, OpenView Venture Partners, Greylock Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Software
01 Jan 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Scout Labs

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Search Engine
Social Media
01 Dec 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Swivel

File Sharing
Online Portals
Search Engine
$1M01 Apr 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Scout Labs

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Search Engine
Social Media
01 Oct 2006 San Francisco, California, United States

Swivel

File Sharing
Online Portals
Search Engine
$1M01 Sep 2006 San Francisco, California, United States

Kareo

Cloud Computing
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care
Medical
Software
$2M17 May 2006 Irvine, California, United States

GrandCentral

Mobile
Telecommunications
VoIP
$4M01 Apr 2006 Fremont, California, United States

8020 Media

News
Photography
Publishing
01 Jan 2006 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

OpenDNS

Enterprise
Internet
Security
$2M01 Nov 2005 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.69
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 3

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Software
01 Jan 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

Scout Labs

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Search Engine
Social Media
01 Dec 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Swivel

File Sharing
Online Portals
Search Engine
$1M01 Apr 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Scout Labs

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Enterprise Software
Search Engine
Social Media
01 Oct 2006 San Francisco, California, United States

Swivel

File Sharing
Online Portals
Search Engine
$1M01 Sep 2006 San Francisco, California, United States

Kareo

Cloud Computing
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care
Medical
Software
$2M17 May 2006 Irvine, California, United States

GrandCentral

Mobile
Telecommunications
VoIP
$4M01 Apr 2006 Fremont, California, United States

8020 Media

News
Photography
Publishing
01 Jan 2006 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

OpenDNS

Enterprise
Internet
Security
$2M01 Nov 2005 San Francisco, California, United States
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