SJF Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Durham, United States

Total investments

101

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

65

Rounds per year

4.04

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationEnergySolar

Summary

In 1999 was created SJF Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Durham. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SJF Ventures, startups are often financed by Trailblazer Capital, Y Combinator, Sandbox Industries. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trailblazer Capital, NRG Energy, GSV AcceleraTE. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trailblazer Capital, Aster, Revolution.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Optoro, Intechra Holdings, Civitas Learning 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Logistics. 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 needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 31 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this SJF Ventures performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Anne Claire Broughton, David Kirkpatrick, Rick Defieux. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistEnergyMobilityClimate techLogistics Show 8 more
Stage focus
Series CSeries DSeries E
Check size
1M — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 175000000
Fund raised date
2021-02-04

Analytics

Total investments
101
Lead investments
14
Exits
15
Rounds per year
4.04
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Software (35)
  • Health Care (19)
  • Information Technology (19)
  • SaaS (16)
  • Analytics (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (99)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
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
41M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.33
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Iron Sheepdog 25 Mar 2024 Software, Finance, Apps, Construction Early Stage Venture 10M United States, Virginia, Williamsburg
Mercado Labs 16 Dec 2021 Logistics, Freight Service, Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Shipping Early Stage Venture United States, Texas, Dallas
OptiChroniX 10 Feb 2021 Medical Device, Therapeutics, mHealth Seed 10K Switzerland, Basel-Country
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