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SDL Ventures

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.67
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Cosmetics
  • Beauty
  • Telecommunications
  • Biotechnology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

selectION

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$4M31 May 2019 San Diego, California, United States

Retrotope

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$10M15 Jan 2015 California, United States

RetroSense Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Therapeutics
$6M08 Jan 2015 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

BridgeWave Communications

Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$7M30 Jul 2007 San Jose, California, United States

TRIA Beauty

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$4M26 Oct 2005 California, United States

TRIA Beauty

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$5M10 Feb 2005 California, United States

TRIA Beauty

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$3M13 Dec 2004 California, United States

Konarka Technologies

Industrial
Manufacturing
Solar
$18M24 Jun 2004 Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

TRIA Beauty

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$1M23 Oct 2003 California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.67
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

selectION

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$4M31 May 2019 San Diego, California, United States

Retrotope

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$10M15 Jan 2015 California, United States

RetroSense Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Life Science
Therapeutics
$6M08 Jan 2015 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

BridgeWave Communications

Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$7M30 Jul 2007 San Jose, California, United States

TRIA Beauty

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$4M26 Oct 2005 California, United States

TRIA Beauty

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$5M10 Feb 2005 California, United States

TRIA Beauty

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$3M13 Dec 2004 California, United States

Konarka Technologies

Industrial
Manufacturing
Solar
$18M24 Jun 2004 Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

TRIA Beauty

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
$1M23 Oct 2003 California, United States
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