Morgenthaler Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Portola Valley, United States

Total investments

353

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

177

Rounds per year

6.30

Lead investments

46

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

99

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalSemiconductorTelecommunications

Summary

In 1968 was created Morgenthaler Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MuleSoft, Lending Club, Evernote. 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 location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, Software.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Morgenthaler Ventures performs on 5 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Morgenthaler Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

Besides them, we counted 11 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Morgenthaler Ventures, startups are often financed by Worldview Technology Partners, QuestMark Partners, Meritech Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vertex Ventures HC, Technology Partners, Latterell Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Meritech Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Worldview Technology Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/EnterpriseBiotech/Life SciencesHealthcareMedtech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
353
Lead investments
46
Exits
99
Rounds per year
6.30
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (115)
  • Biotechnology (86)
  • Medical (67)
  • Manufacturing (63)
  • Software (62)
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Investments by region
  • United States (342)
  • China (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2005
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
244M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
7.16
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Moximed 17 Mar 2017 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device Late Stage Venture 50M United States, California, Hayward
Second Genome 13 Apr 2016 Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Medical Early Stage Venture 51M United States, California, San Francisco
TON Telegram Open Network 01 Jan 2024 Seed

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