Sherpalo Ventures

Summary

Sherpalo Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flexport, InMobi, Gusto. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Apps. 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Ram Shriram.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Sherpalo Ventures, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, First Round Capital, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Felicis Ventures, Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital.

The important activity for fund was in 2008. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from Sherpalo Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Sherpalo Ventures performs on 3 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.