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Quicksilver Ventures

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 4
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Network Security
  • Enterprise Software
  • Database
  • Cloud Computing
  • Software
Summary

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

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Quicksilver Ventures, startups are often financed by JK&B Capital, Vanguard Ventures, Sigma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are JK&B Capital, Sigma Partners, Vanguard Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sigma Partners, JK&B Capital, Vanguard Ventures.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Aperto Networks, Bay Microsystems, Attune Systems We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as File Sharing, Hardware. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Quicksilver Ventures works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2006. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Attune Systems

File Sharing
Hardware
Software
$4M27 Jun 2006 San Jose, California, United States

Vormetric

Cloud Computing
Database
Enterprise Software
Network Security
$15M02 Jun 2004 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 12M
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Attune Systems

File Sharing
Hardware
Software
$4M27 Jun 2006 San Jose, California, United States

Vormetric

Cloud Computing
Database
Enterprise Software
Network Security
$15M02 Jun 2004 San Jose, California, United States
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