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Novus Ventures

Founders Daniel Tompkins Greg Lahann

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 1.19
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Internet
  • Wireless
  • Mobile
Summary

Novus Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1994. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Cupertino.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Novus Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Novus Ventures performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2006.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Manufacturing. 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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Encirq Corporation, Pathwork Diagnostics, QD Vision.

The current fund was established by Daniel Tompkins, Greg Lahann. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Novus Ventures, startups are often financed by Norwest Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Compass Technology Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Norwest Venture Partners, Compass Technology Partners, Scale Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scale Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LOVEThESIGN

E-Commerce
Home Decor
Home Furnishings
Internet Retail
Shopping
$1M01 Jul 2013 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Pathwork Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$30M06 Oct 2010 Redwood City, California, United States

eXpresso

Cloud Data Services
Collaboration
Communities
Hardware
SaaS
Software
$2M17 Oct 2007 Palo Alto, California, United States

Zipidee

E-Commerce
14 Oct 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Vizionware

Audio
Manufacturing
Software
Video
$8M31 Aug 2007 Austin, Texas, United States

AdECN

Advertising
Real Time
$3M01 Feb 2006 California, United States

Apps
Data Integration
Embedded Systems
Software
$14M09 Jan 2006 California, United States

Pathwork Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M01 Oct 2005 Redwood City, California, United States

Venturi Wireless

Enterprise
Mobile
Wireless
$10M24 Jan 2005 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 32
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.19
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

LOVEThESIGN

E-Commerce
Home Decor
Home Furnishings
Internet Retail
Shopping
$1M01 Jul 2013 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Pathwork Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$30M06 Oct 2010 Redwood City, California, United States

eXpresso

Cloud Data Services
Collaboration
Communities
Hardware
SaaS
Software
$2M17 Oct 2007 Palo Alto, California, United States

Zipidee

E-Commerce
14 Oct 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Vizionware

Audio
Manufacturing
Software
Video
$8M31 Aug 2007 Austin, Texas, United States

AdECN

Advertising
Real Time
$3M01 Feb 2006 California, United States

Apps
Data Integration
Embedded Systems
Software
$14M09 Jan 2006 California, United States

Pathwork Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M01 Oct 2005 Redwood City, California, United States

Venturi Wireless

Enterprise
Mobile
Wireless
$10M24 Jan 2005 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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