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Pinnacle Ventures

Founders Eric Chiu Kenneth Pelowski

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Total investments 82
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$23M
Portfolio companies 54
Rounds per year 3.73
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 33
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Internet
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Functionland

Blockchain
Software
$1M25 Jan 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alphadex

Gaming
Information Technology
Network Security
$3M18 Jan 2022 -

CloudPay

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Payments
SaaS
Software
$25M03 May 2018 Test Valley, England, United Kingdom

Tala Security

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
Software
$2M06 Nov 2017 Fremont, California, United States

Tala Security

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
Software
01 Oct 2017 Fremont, California, United States

OpsClarity

Big Data
Cloud Infrastructure
Information Technology
$11M03 Dec 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Inksedge

E-Commerce
Internet
Retail
$1M03 Dec 2014 Mountain View, California, United States

Boost Media

Advertising
B2B
Crowdsourcing
SaaS
$19M18 Nov 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

PSafe Technology

Android
Cloud Computing
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Security
Software
$15M01 Nov 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 82
Average round size 23M
Rounds per year 3.73
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 33
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Functionland

Blockchain
Software
$1M25 Jan 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alphadex

Gaming
Information Technology
Network Security
$3M18 Jan 2022 -

CloudPay

Cloud Computing
Information Technology
Payments
SaaS
Software
$25M03 May 2018 Test Valley, England, United Kingdom

Tala Security

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
Software
$2M06 Nov 2017 Fremont, California, United States

Tala Security

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
Software
01 Oct 2017 Fremont, California, United States

OpsClarity

Big Data
Cloud Infrastructure
Information Technology
$11M03 Dec 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Inksedge

E-Commerce
Internet
Retail
$1M03 Dec 2014 Mountain View, California, United States

Boost Media

Advertising
B2B
Crowdsourcing
SaaS
$19M18 Nov 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

PSafe Technology

Android
Cloud Computing
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Security
Software
$15M01 Nov 2014 San Francisco, California, United States
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