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Montlake Capital

Founders Andy Dale Artie Buerk

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.55
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 6
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Human Resources
  • Big Data
Summary

Montlake Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Seattle.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2004. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This Montlake Capital works on 26 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The fund was created by Andy Dale, Artie Buerk. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Montlake Capital, startups are often financed by Warren Packard, Madrona Venture Group, Frontier Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Madrona Venture Group, Fluke Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Madrona Venture Group, Trinity Ventures, Fluke Venture Partners.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Escapia, Intrepid Learning, Inc., Vanson HaloSource. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Human Resources. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ClearAccess

Mobile Devices
Residential
SaaS
Software
Web Hosting
$6M18 Aug 2009 Vancouver, Washington, United States

PayScale

Big Data
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$10M01 Jul 2007 Seattle, Washington, United States

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$7M27 Mar 2007 Portland, Oregon, United States

PayScale

Big Data
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$7M01 Oct 2005 Seattle, Washington, United States

Vanson HaloSource

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
$5M17 Mar 2005 District of Columbia, United States

PayScale

Big Data
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$3M01 Oct 2004 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.55
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ClearAccess

Mobile Devices
Residential
SaaS
Software
Web Hosting
$6M18 Aug 2009 Vancouver, Washington, United States

PayScale

Big Data
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$10M01 Jul 2007 Seattle, Washington, United States

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$7M27 Mar 2007 Portland, Oregon, United States

PayScale

Big Data
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$7M01 Oct 2005 Seattle, Washington, United States

Vanson HaloSource

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
$5M17 Mar 2005 District of Columbia, United States

PayScale

Big Data
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$3M01 Oct 2004 Seattle, Washington, United States
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