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Palo Alto Venture Partners

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.31
Lead investments 1
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Industrial
  • Hardware
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

In 1996 was created Palo Alto Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Palo Alto Venture Partners, startups are often financed by ONSET Ventures, El Dorado Ventures, 21Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sevin Rosen Funds, Ridgewood Capital, El Dorado Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TTV Capital, Entertainment Partners, City National Bank.

Opposing the other organizations, this Palo Alto Venture Partners works on 54 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2009. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Nextance, Ethertronics, Exactuals. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Exactuals

FinTech
Payments
SaaS
Software
$10M08 Feb 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Bright View Technologies

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Industrial
Manufacturing
$4M22 Apr 2009 North Carolina, United States

Aspectrics

CleanTech
Industrial
Manufacturing
11 May 2006 Pleasanton, California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 0.31
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 1
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Exactuals

FinTech
Payments
SaaS
Software
$10M08 Feb 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Bright View Technologies

Enterprise Software
Hardware
Industrial
Manufacturing
$4M22 Apr 2009 North Carolina, United States

Aspectrics

CleanTech
Industrial
Manufacturing
11 May 2006 Pleasanton, California, United States
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