Sierra Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Mateo, United States

Total investments

428

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

206

Rounds per year

10.19

Lead investments

97

Follow on index

0.52

Exits

83

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurity

Summary

In 1982 was created Sierra Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Mateo.

We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sierra Ventures, startups are often financed by AngelPad, Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Battery Ventures, Translink Capital, Dell Technologies Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NeoCarta Ventures, Intel Capital, Translink Capital.

Comparing to the other companies, this Sierra Ventures performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Sierra Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sourcefire, Accruent, InvenSense.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseAI/Big DataCybersecurityCloud/InfrastructureHealthcare Show 2 more
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
1M — 8M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 265000000
Fund raised date
2023-09-12

Analytics

Total investments
428
Lead investments
97
Exits
83
Rounds per year
10.19
Follow on index
0.52
Investments by industry
  • Software (203)
  • Information Technology (81)
  • SaaS (72)
  • Enterprise Software (62)
  • Mobile (54)
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Investments by region
  • United States (368)
  • China (12)
  • Canada (8)
  • Israel (9)
  • India (9)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
10
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
303M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.36
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Approximate Labs 23 Mar 2023 Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Seed 5M United States, Boulder, Colorado
The New Club 13 Mar 2024 Seed 3M United States, California, San Francisco

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