Palomar Ventures

Total investments

96

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

46

Rounds per year

4.00

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.52

Exits

36

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileInformation ServicesEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSecurityHardwareBusiness Development

Summary

Palomar Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Ladera Ranch.

The current fund was established by James Montgomery. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Palomar Ventures, startups are often financed by El Dorado Ventures, Austin Ventures, Sigma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Austin Ventures, InterWest Partners, Windward Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by El Dorado Ventures, Windward Ventures, Sigma Partners.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WiQuest Communications, Netcontinuum, DATAllegro. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Enterprise Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Comparing to the other companies, this Palomar Ventures performs on 8 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2003. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from Palomar Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
96
Lead investments
16
Exits
36
Rounds per year
4.00
Follow on index
0.52
Investments by industry
  • Software (48)
  • Enterprise Software (22)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Analytics (13)
  • Hardware (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (94)
  • Singapore (2)
Peak activity year
2003
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
46M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.70
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Equitise 20 Mar 2015 Venture Capital, Financial Services, Crowdfunding Seed 0 Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
Virtela Technology Services 15 Oct 2001 Mobile, Security, Telecommunications, IT Management Early Stage Venture 35M United States, Colorado
WiQuest Communications 20 Dec 2004 Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics Early Stage Venture 13M United States, Texas

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