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Morgenthaler Ventures

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Total investments 352
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 177
Rounds per year 6.29
Lead investments 46
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 99
Key employees 11
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Manufacturing
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Moximed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$40M16 Aug 2022 Hayward, California, United States

Olympic Ophthalmics

Biotechnology
Medical Device
Therapeutics
10 Jan 2018 Washington, United States

Moximed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$50M17 Mar 2017 Hayward, California, United States

Moximed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$50M16 Mar 2017 Hayward, California, United States

Second Genome

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$51M13 Apr 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

NuoDB

Cloud Data Services
Database
Enterprise Software
Software
$17M22 Feb 2016 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Big Switch Networks

Data Center
Information Technology
Network Security
Software
$48M19 Jan 2016 San Jose, California, United States

Vapotherm

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$30M24 Nov 2015 New Hampshire, United States

ADARA

Advertising
Internet
Travel
$23M14 Sep 2015 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 352
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 6.29
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 46
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 99
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Moximed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$40M16 Aug 2022 Hayward, California, United States

Olympic Ophthalmics

Biotechnology
Medical Device
Therapeutics
10 Jan 2018 Washington, United States

Moximed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$50M17 Mar 2017 Hayward, California, United States

Moximed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$50M16 Mar 2017 Hayward, California, United States

Second Genome

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$51M13 Apr 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

NuoDB

Cloud Data Services
Database
Enterprise Software
Software
$17M22 Feb 2016 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Big Switch Networks

Data Center
Information Technology
Network Security
Software
$48M19 Jan 2016 San Jose, California, United States

Vapotherm

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$30M24 Nov 2015 New Hampshire, United States

ADARA

Advertising
Internet
Travel
$23M14 Sep 2015 Mountain View, California, United States
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