RRE Ventures

Headquarters Location

United States, New York

About

RRE Ventures is a well known and established VC, which was founded in 1994. The fund is located in United States, North America. The the headquarters of this VC is in New York.

This VC was founded by Jim Robinson, Stuart Ellman. The overall number of key employees in the fund's team is 8.

The country of its foundation and the country of the most frequent investments for the fund coincides - United States. In addition to this location, the fund participated in 4 other locations. Among their most successful investment fields, we have identified Finance, Analytics. Also, because of its portfolio diversification tendency, we can highlight 88 more industries for this fund. The average start-up age at the time of investment by this fund is 4-5. Datadog, Avant, BroadSoft are amongst the various portfolio companies of this fund. The fund has no an exact preference in the amount of founders of companies in its portfolio. If the applying start-up has 5+ founders, it is very unlikely that funding will be awarded.

Typical investments for this fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. In real terms, this VC performs 6 percentage points more exits than other funds. RRE Ventures is involved in 11 percentage points less than the average amount of lead investments when compared with other funds. The fund generally invests in 13-24 deals every year. The fund's activity peaked in 2015. Besides, in 2019 the fund was active. The highest number of exits from this fund were in 2019. When RRE Ventures invests, the average start-up valuation is 100-500 millions dollars.

The fund usually invests in rounds together with 5-6 others. Aside from RRE Ventures, start-ups are often funded by Homebrew, GV, Founder Collective and 315 other funds. Other VCs who often invest in the same rounds are Khosla Ventures, KEC Ventures, Eniac Ventures, the total number of co-investors is 376. The investors in the following rounds are usually ff Venture Capital, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, and 296 VCs in total.

Year Founded

1994

Fund Activity

Operative

Mail Rule [rules by which you can get an email of an interesting for you fund employee, knowing only the name and surname of this employee]

Domain name: rre.com; User name format in descending order of probability: first_initial last, first, first last, first last_initial, last

Group Appearance [how often fund is operating separately from groups with shared interest]

98.6% of cases

Investments per Year [average amount of rounds in which fund participates each year]

13-24

Follow-on Index [how often fund is ready to support its portfolio startup at next rounds]

36.1% of cases

Average Multiplicator [the average ratio of the last valuation of portfolio startups to their total amount of financing raised]

x8.5

Average Portfolio Company
Exit Age [the average age of portfolio startups at which they go public or become acquired]

3.2 years

Success / Strategy Similarity
Index [the matching between fund's investment strategy and its proved successes in the form of portfolio startups high valuations]

0.58 out of 1

Number of Unicorns [amount of portfolio companies, which were valuated at more then $1B]

6

Number of Minotaurs [amount of portfolio companies, which raised more then $1B in total]

2

Funds Investing in Previous
Rounds

Homebrew, GV, Founder Collective

Funds Investing Together

Khosla Ventures, KEC Ventures, Eniac Ventures

Funds Investing in Following
Rounds

ff Venture Capital, Index Ventures, General Catalyst