Sand Hill Capital

Total investments

16

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

2.67

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareMobileMarketing AutomationSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataAdvertisingAd TargetingMobile Advertising

Summary

In 1996 was created Sand Hill Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Sand Hill Capital works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2020.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Sand Hill Capital, startups are often financed by Worldview Technology Partners, Sierra Ventures, Mayfield Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Worldview Technology Partners, Gannett Co Inc. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), DFJ, Gannett Co Inc.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Security, Advertising. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sigma Networks, Video Networks, 4INFO.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
1
Exits
7
Rounds per year
2.67
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Enterprise Software (5)
  • Advertising (5)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Software (3)
  • SaaS (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
4INFO 01 Mar 2005 Marketing Automation, Big Data, Advertising, Ad Targeting, Mobile Advertising Late Stage Venture 8M United States, California, San Jose

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