Monitor Ventures

Total investments

34

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

1.70

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.62

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataLife ScienceAdvertisingCommunications InfrastructureClean Energy

Summary

Monitor Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2003. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Adaptive Insights, HydroPoint Data Systems, Matisse Networks. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Water. 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. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Monitor Ventures, startups are often financed by NeoCarta Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners, BlueStream Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OVP Venture Partners, ONSET Ventures, NeoCarta Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OVP Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners.

This organization was formed by Neal Bhadkamkar, Teymour Boutros-Ghali. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This Monitor Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2007. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Monitor Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
4
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.70
Follow on index
0.62
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (11)
  • Enterprise Software (10)
  • Software (8)
  • Advertising (7)
  • SaaS (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (34)
Peak activity year
2007
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
397M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Workday Adaptive Planning 01 Mar 2007 Software, Enterprise, Finance, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Visualization, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Late Stage Venture 7M United States, California, Palo Alto
DeftHedge 01 Jan 2020 Software, FinTech Seed 944K Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Greystripe 11 Oct 2006 Publishing, Marketing, Advertising, Advertising Platforms Early Stage Venture 1M United States, California, San Francisco
KNAB Finance 18 Aug 2017 Financial Services, FinTech, Small and Medium Businesses, Lending Seed 325K Karnataka, Bengaluru, India

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