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Rho West

Founders Greg Steiner

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.70
Lead investments 0
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • Cyber Security
  • Consumer
Summary

In 2012 was created Rho West, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Santa Monica.

This organization was formed by Greg Steiner. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the Rho West, startups are often financed by RRE Ventures, Jarl Mohn, Deep Fork Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Resolute Ventures, Greycroft, Double M Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Resolute Ventures, Amplify.LA, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Rho West performs on 0 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2014.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BarkBox, Playdek, Fama. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Consumer, Subscription Service. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fama

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Internet
Machine Learning
Software
$2M23 Dec 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Dropoff, Inc.

Internet
Logistics
Same Day Delivery
$7M22 Jun 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

Pluto TV

Apps
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video
Video Streaming
$500K13 Oct 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

BarkBox

Consumer
Content
E-Commerce
Pet
Subscription Service
$15M11 Jul 2014 New York, New York, United States

Bitium

Cloud Computing
Cyber Security
Identity Management
SaaS
Security
Software
$2M17 Apr 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

Playdek

Android
iOS
Mobile
$3M28 Mar 2013 Carlsbad, California, United States

Signifyd

Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Payments
$2M19 Dec 2012 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 0.70
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 0
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fama

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Internet
Machine Learning
Software
$2M23 Dec 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Dropoff, Inc.

Internet
Logistics
Same Day Delivery
$7M22 Jun 2015 Austin, Texas, United States

Pluto TV

Apps
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video
Video Streaming
$500K13 Oct 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

BarkBox

Consumer
Content
E-Commerce
Pet
Subscription Service
$15M11 Jul 2014 New York, New York, United States

Bitium

Cloud Computing
Cyber Security
Identity Management
SaaS
Security
Software
$2M17 Apr 2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

Playdek

Android
iOS
Mobile
$3M28 Mar 2013 Carlsbad, California, United States

Signifyd

Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Payments
$2M19 Dec 2012 San Jose, California, United States
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