Root Ventures

Summary

In 2013 was created Root Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Root Ventures, startups are often financed by SOSV, Y Combinator, Jackson Square Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SOSV, Haystack, Spark Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SOSV, HAX, Spark Capital.

The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Root Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Root Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The current fund was established by Avidan Ross. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise, Machine Learning. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Seismic, Nordsense, Instrumental. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.