Puget Sound Venture Club

Location

Bellevue, United States

Total investments

75

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

70

Rounds per year

1.92

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSAppsMedical DeviceMedicalComputer

Summary

Puget Sound Venture Club appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1985. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Bellevue.

The fund was created by Gary Ritner. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Theranos, XploreNet, LearnBIG The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Biotechnology.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Puget Sound Venture Club, startups are often financed by Keiretsu Forum Northwest, Alliance of Angels, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Alliance of Angels, Keiretsu Forum, Keiretsu Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Keiretsu Forum, Alliance of Angels, Portland Seed Fund.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Puget Sound Venture Club works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Puget Sound Venture Club the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Analytics

Total investments
75
Lead investments
2
Exits
10
Rounds per year
1.92
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Software (17)
  • Health Care (14)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Biotechnology (9)
  • SaaS (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (71)
  • Canada (1)
  • Pakistan (1)
  • Turkey (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
138M
Group Appearance index
0.33
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.42
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
LeadScorz 21 Sep 2018 Software, Cloud Data Services, Computer Seed 764K United States, Washington, Seattle
Brightly 22 Jan 2021 Communities, Digital Media, Sustainability Seed 1M United States, California, Oakland
Tictactrip 05 Apr 2022 Transportation, Service Industry, Public Transportation Seed 100K Ile-de-France, Paris, France

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