Silicon Valley Bank

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Location

Santa Clara, United States

Total investments

902

Average round size

30M

Portfolio companies

757

Rounds per year

22.00

Lead investments

176

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

279

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

In 1983 was created Silicon Valley Bank, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Santa Clara.

Besides them, we counted 15 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Silicon Valley Bank, startups are often financed by Pritzker Group Venture Capital, InterWest Partners, Harrison Metal. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lightspeed Venture Partners, Gold Hill Capital, Accel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salesforce Ventures, Foundation Capital, DFJ.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. This Silicon Valley Bank works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Silicon Valley Bank the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight One97 Communications, Stemcentrx, Intarcia Therapeutics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 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. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeries CSeries D

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
902
Lead investments
176
Exits
279
Rounds per year
22.00
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (253)
  • Health Care (155)
  • Biotechnology (136)
  • SaaS (126)
  • Information Technology (105)
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Investments by region
  • United States (702)
  • Canada (56)
  • United Kingdom (64)
  • Germany (10)
  • India (13)
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Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
60
Number of Decacorns
61
Number of Minotaurs
24

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
286M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.88
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Veem 16 Sep 2020 Financial Software, Other Financial Services, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Bitcoin, Blockchain Late Stage Venture 31M United States, California, San Francisco
SteelHouse 10 Dec 2015 Real Time, Advertising Late Stage Venture 49M United States, California

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