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Pond Ventures

Founders Charles Irving Richard Irving

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Total investments 35
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 2.06
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 12
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Wireless
  • Semiconductor
  • Enterprise Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Manufacturing
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Constant Therapy Health

Assistive Technology
Education
Health Care
iOS
Medical
$2M10 Mar 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Mekanist

Apps
Internet
Restaurants
Search Engine
$2M16 May 2013 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

LiveRail

Advertising
Enterprise Software
Video
$4M27 Feb 2012 California, United States

LiveRail

Advertising
Enterprise Software
Video
$3M18 Sep 2010 California, United States

4Home

Automotive
Clean Energy
Cloud Computing
Internet
Software
Wireless
$1M30 Sep 2008 Sunnyvale, California, United States

LiveRail

Advertising
Enterprise Software
Video
$500K13 Aug 2008 California, United States

Gigle Networks

Semiconductor
Telecommunications
Wireless
$20M28 Nov 2007 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Mirics Semiconductor

Application Specific Semiconductors
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Other Information Technology
Other Semiconductors
Semiconductor
$12M06 Aug 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

ACCO SA

Manufacturing
Product Design
$10M30 Jul 2007 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 35
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 2.06
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Constant Therapy Health

Assistive Technology
Education
Health Care
iOS
Medical
$2M10 Mar 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Mekanist

Apps
Internet
Restaurants
Search Engine
$2M16 May 2013 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

LiveRail

Advertising
Enterprise Software
Video
$4M27 Feb 2012 California, United States

LiveRail

Advertising
Enterprise Software
Video
$3M18 Sep 2010 California, United States

4Home

Automotive
Clean Energy
Cloud Computing
Internet
Software
Wireless
$1M30 Sep 2008 Sunnyvale, California, United States

LiveRail

Advertising
Enterprise Software
Video
$500K13 Aug 2008 California, United States

Gigle Networks

Semiconductor
Telecommunications
Wireless
$20M28 Nov 2007 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Mirics Semiconductor

Application Specific Semiconductors
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Other Information Technology
Other Semiconductors
Semiconductor
$12M06 Aug 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

ACCO SA

Manufacturing
Product Design
$10M30 Jul 2007 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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