Northwood Ventures

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Hobe Sound, United States

Total investments

69

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

1.68

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

22

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareConsumer GoodsRetailMobileHealth CareRestaurantsManufacturingMusicTelecommunications

Summary

Northwood Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1983. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Syosset.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2003. The real fund results show that this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Northwood Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Northwood Ventures performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Northwood Ventures, startups are often financed by Warburg Pincus, Shelter Growth Capital Partners, Imlay Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Imlay Investments, Warburg Pincus, Telecom Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sovereign Brands, Soundscan, Qualcomm Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Gifnote by Audiobyte, ThruComm, ezgov.com For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Photo Sharing, Web Hosting. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries BSeries C

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
6
Exits
22
Rounds per year
1.68
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (10)
  • Retail (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Restaurants (5)
  • Internet (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (63)
  • Canada (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Argentina (1)
  • Russia (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
108M
Group Appearance index
0.29
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
6.52

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Nextel Communications 01 Jan 1987 Public Relations Seed United States, Overland Park, Kansas
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