NightDragon Security

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

26

Average round size

55M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

3.25

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

1

Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesEnterprise SoftwareAerospaceCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityRisk Management

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the NightDragon Security, startups are often financed by Work-Bench, Paladin Capital Group, Menlo Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AllegisCyber, WestWave Capital, UL Ventures.

The current fund was established by Dave DeWalt.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. This NightDragon Security works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline vArmour, SAM Seamless Network, SafeGuard Cyber Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Risk Management, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
CybersecuritySecurity
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 750000000
Fund raised date
2021-07-26

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
3.25
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Cyber Security (14)
  • Security (10)
  • Software (10)
  • Network Security (8)
  • Risk Management (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (21)
  • Israel (4)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
132M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
4.25
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
RapidSOS 05 Mar 2024 Mobile Apps, mHealth, Public Safety Late Stage Venture 75M United States, New York, New York
SAM Seamless Network 14 Nov 2018 Software, Enterprise Software, Cyber Security, Network Security, Computer, Internet of Things Early Stage Venture 12M Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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