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Pivotal Investments

Founders Bradley A. Zenger

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$23M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.64
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Energy Efficiency
  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Telecommunications
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EnergySavvy

Cloud Infrastructure
Energy Efficiency
SaaS
Software
$8M01 Jul 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States

EnergySavvy

Cloud Infrastructure
Energy Efficiency
SaaS
Software
$3M02 Aug 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

Pacific Light Technologies

Building Material
Construction
Hardware
$2M04 May 2012 Portland, Oregon, United States

Axsun Technologies

Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$111M15 Jan 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Axsun Technologies

Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$36M19 Jan 2000 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 23M
Rounds per year 0.64
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EnergySavvy

Cloud Infrastructure
Energy Efficiency
SaaS
Software
$8M01 Jul 2014 Seattle, Washington, United States

EnergySavvy

Cloud Infrastructure
Energy Efficiency
SaaS
Software
$3M02 Aug 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

Pacific Light Technologies

Building Material
Construction
Hardware
$2M04 May 2012 Portland, Oregon, United States

Axsun Technologies

Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$111M15 Jan 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Axsun Technologies

Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$36M19 Jan 2000 Massachusetts, United States
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