Pinnacle Ventures
82
23M
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3.73
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0.34
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Pinnacle Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Software. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pandora, Nextdoor, Chegg.
The current fund was established by Eric Chiu, Kenneth Pelowski. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.
Opposing the other organizations, this Pinnacle Ventures works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. When the investment is from Pinnacle Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Pinnacle Ventures, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Shelter Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Redpoint eventures, Battery Ventures, Versant Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Redpoint, Benchmark, Greylock Partners.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 82
- Lead investments
- 8
- Exits
- 33
- Rounds per year
- 3.73
- Follow on index
- 0.34
- Investments by industry
- Software (18)
- Biotechnology (11)
- Information Technology (11)
- Health Care (10)
- Internet (10) Show 113 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (73)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Canada (2)
- Brazil (4)
- Peak activity year
- 2008
- Number of Unicorns
- 4
- Number of Decacorns
- 4
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 16
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 242M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.94
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.62
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tala Security | 06 Nov 2017 | Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Security | Seed | 2M | United States, California, Fremont |
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