Sierra Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
San Mateo, United States
428
13M
206
10.19
97
0.52
83
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 250 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (368)
- China (12)
- Canada (8)
- Israel (9)
- India (9) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 9
- Number of Decacorns
- 10
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- 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 |
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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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