SDL Ventures

Total investments

12

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.67

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceBeautyCosmeticsMobileManufacturingCloud ComputingTherapeuticsTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

SDL Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2003. The main department of described VC is located in the Mountain View. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SDL Ventures, startups are often financed by Zero Stage Capital, TeleSoft Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Incubic Venture Fund, Oak Investment Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Core Capital Partners, Wall Street Technology Partners, TeleSoft Partners.

This SDL Ventures works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2004. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee 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 a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TRIA Beauty, BridgeWave Communications, selectION. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Genetics, Data Center.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.67
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • Cosmetics (5)
  • Beauty (5)
  • Telecommunications (3)
  • Biotechnology (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
Peak activity year
2004

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
120M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
3.53
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
TRIA Beauty 26 Oct 2005 E-Commerce, Beauty, Cosmetics Late Stage Venture 4M United States, California

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