Pond Ventures

Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Jose.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Opposing the other organizations, this Pond Ventures works on 5 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Pond Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The fund was created by Charles Irving, Richard Irving. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 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 ACCO Semiconductor, Mekanist, 4Home. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Wireless.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Pond Ventures, startups are often financed by Crescendo Ventures, Atlas Venture, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Crescendo Ventures, Intel Capital, Atlas Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Equity Partners, Intel Capital, Crescendo Ventures.