Novus Ventures

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.