Pivotal Investments

Total investments

7

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.64

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BroadcastingSoftwareSaaSManufacturingCloud InfrastructureMarketingElectronicsTelecommunicationsFilmEnergy Efficiency

Summary

Pivotal Investments is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Portland. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy Efficiency, 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 location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight EnergySavvy.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6 partakers. Despite the Pivotal Investments, startups are often financed by Element 8, Voyager Capital, VantagePoint Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VantagePoint Capital Partners, Prism Venture Management, Goldman Sachs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Prism Venture Management, Prelude Ventures, LLC.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Pivotal Investments performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

This organization was formed by Bradley A. Zenger.

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Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.64
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Energy Efficiency (2)
  • SaaS (2)
  • Software (2)
  • Cloud Infrastructure (2)
  • Telecommunications (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
42
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
16

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Pacific Light Technologies 04 May 2012 Building Material, Construction, Hardware Early Stage Venture 2M United States, Oregon, Portland

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