Rho

New York, United States
Active
Total investments

128

Average round size

22M

Portfolio companies

80

Rounds per year

3.05

Lead investments

22

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

39

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareManufacturingSecurityMedicalPharmaceuticalAdvertisingTelecommunications

Summary

In 1981 was created Rho Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Rho Ventures, startups are often financed by Braemar Energy Ventures, Intel Capital, Care Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Braemar Energy Ventures, HealthCare Ventures, Star Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CenterPoint Venture Partners, Care Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Anacor Pharmaceutical, Intralinks, ChargePoint. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this Rho Ventures works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Rho Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
128
Lead investments
22
Exits
39
Rounds per year
3.05
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (23)
  • Biotechnology (20)
  • Information Technology (19)
  • Health Care (17)
  • Manufacturing (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (108)
  • Canada (8)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Israel (1)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
141M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.11
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Marriage Pact28 Sep 2022Seed5M
Playerize04 Jan 2012Mobile, Gaming, Social Network, Marketing, Advertising, Industrial, Web HostingEarly Stage Venture1MUnited States, California, San Francisco
Xtera29 Jan 2001Data Center, Telecommunications, Optical CommunicationEarly Stage Venture110MUnited States, Texas

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