Shea Ventures

Total investments

77

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

52

Rounds per year

1.38

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

23

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailAnalyticsMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataConsumer Electronics

Summary

In 1968 was created Shea Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Walnut. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Shea Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. This Shea Ventures works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The fund was created by Edmund Shea, John F. Shea. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Shea Ventures, startups are often financed by True Ventures, Mayfield Fund, GV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foundry Group, GV, Mayfield Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, GV, True Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Enterprise Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SolarCity, Ring, 3D Robotics

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
77
Lead investments
12
Exits
23
Rounds per year
1.38
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • E-Commerce (17)
  • Internet (10)
  • Consumer Electronics (7)
  • Enterprise Software (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (76)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
138M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
0.63
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hatch 04 May 2020 Lifestyle, Consumer Electronics, Baby Early Stage Venture 9M United States, California
Kaboodle 17 Apr 2006 E-Commerce, Internet, Shopping Early Stage Venture 3M United States, California, Sunnyvale

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