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RWI Ventures

Founders Don A. Lucas

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.91
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 6
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
  • Medical Device
  • Biotechnology
  • Security
Summary

RWI Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

This organization was formed by Don A. Lucas. The overall number of key employees were 2.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Infinera Corporation, BlueArc, Barosense. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the RWI Ventures, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, VenGrowth Asset Management, Prism Venture Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, ATA Ventures, Venrock. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Mobius Venture Capital, VenGrowth Asset Management.

The high activity for fund was in 2007. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this RWI Ventures performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Voyage Medical

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$20M18 Jun 2010 Redwood City, California, United States

Voyage Medical

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$22M11 Aug 2008 Redwood City, California, United States

Barosense

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$11M05 Dec 2007 Redwood City, California, United States

Therative

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Health Care
Medical
$9M17 May 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Therative

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Health Care
Medical
$5M17 Jan 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Voyage Medical

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$3M16 Nov 2006 Redwood City, California, United States

Email
Management Information Systems
Security
$8M06 Mar 2006 California, United States

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$109M26 Sep 2000 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.91
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Voyage Medical

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$20M18 Jun 2010 Redwood City, California, United States

Voyage Medical

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$22M11 Aug 2008 Redwood City, California, United States

Barosense

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Therapeutics
$11M05 Dec 2007 Redwood City, California, United States

Therative

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Health Care
Medical
$9M17 May 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Therative

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Health Care
Medical
$5M17 Jan 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Voyage Medical

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$3M16 Nov 2006 Redwood City, California, United States

Email
Management Information Systems
Security
$8M06 Mar 2006 California, United States

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$109M26 Sep 2000 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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