ONSET Ventures

Total investments

132

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

60

Rounds per year

3.38

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.55

Exits

35

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMedical DeviceNetwork SecuritySecurityMedicalDeveloper Platform

Summary

ONSET Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1984. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the ONSET Ventures, startups are often financed by InterWest Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, Investor Growth Capital Limited. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pitango Venture Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures, Investor Growth Capital Limited. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Morgenthaler Ventures, Investor Growth Capital Limited, Canaan Partners.

The fund was created by David Kelley, Michael Levinthal, Terry Opdendyk. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CallidusCloud, Adaptive Insights, CytoPherx Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Medical Device.

The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from ONSET Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this ONSET Ventures performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
132
Lead investments
12
Exits
35
Rounds per year
3.38
Follow on index
0.55
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (50)
  • Medical Device (36)
  • Software (33)
  • Biotechnology (33)
  • Medical (23)
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Investments by region
  • United States (128)
  • India (3)
Peak activity year
2009

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
69M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.37
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
APX 28 Aug 2000 Wholesale, Energy, Industrial, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas, Energy Management Late Stage Venture 33M United States, California, San Jose
Securent 01 Jan 2006 Software, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Content Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California, Mountain View

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