Shasta Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Portola Valley, United States

Total investments

440

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

227

Rounds per year

22.00

Lead investments

82

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

71

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSAppsMobile AppsEnterprise Software

Summary

In 2004 was created Shasta Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This organization was formed by Ravi Mohan, Rob Coneybeer. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Shasta Ventures, startups are often financed by Redpoint, FLOODGATE, Tenaya Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Salesforce Ventures, Opus Capital, Mayfield Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Trident Capital, Meritech Capital Partners.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Apptio, Nextdoor, Zuora Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Marketing. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Shasta Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. When the investment is from Shasta Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseCybersecurity
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
Up to 10M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
440
Lead investments
82
Exits
71
Rounds per year
22.00
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Software (155)
  • Enterprise Software (89)
  • SaaS (84)
  • Information Technology (70)
  • Internet (59)
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Investments by region
  • United States (417)
  • New Zealand (7)
  • Canada (4)
  • Mexico (1)
  • Australia (3)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
11
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
425M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.15
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Recurve 17 Jun 2010 Software, Construction, Energy Efficiency Early Stage Venture 8M United States, California, San Francisco
The Pill Club 22 Jan 2019 Fitness, Health Care, Wellness, Medical, Women's Early Stage Venture 51M United States, Kansas, Topeka

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