Sageview Capital

Summary

Sageview Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline GoPro, Avalara, MetricStream We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, SaaS.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Sageview Capital, startups are often financed by Scale Venture Partners, Foundry Group, Costanoa Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scale Venture Partners, Leaders Fund, Greenspring Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Battery Ventures, Warburg Pincus, TCV.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 64 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Sageview Capital performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Sageview Capital is 50-100 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The current fund was established by Edward Gilhuly, Scott Stuart. The overall number of key employees were 5.