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SmartForest Ventures

Founders Debi Coleman

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 1.19
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 7
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Semiconductor
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
Summary

In 2000 was created SmartForest Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Portland. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the SmartForest Ventures, startups are often financed by Voyager Capital, Viventures, Shelter Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Voyager Capital, Intel Capital, Capybara Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by InterWest Partners, Intel Capital, BlueRun Ventures.

The current fund was established by Debi Coleman.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2005. Opposing the other organizations, this SmartForest Ventures works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Hardware, Information Technology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Teseda Corporation, Finatus, IPextreme. 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 a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NexPlanar

Nanotechnology
Product Design
Semiconductor
$14M27 Jun 2008 Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

NexPlanar

Nanotechnology
Product Design
Semiconductor
$14M09 Apr 2008 Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

NexPlanar

Nanotechnology
Product Design
Semiconductor
$7M11 Apr 2007 Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

Sentilla

Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
IT Management
Network Management Software
Software
Systems and Information Management
$3M23 Oct 2006 Redwood City, California, United States

Enli Health Intelligence Corp.

Health Care
mHealth
Software
$6M21 Oct 2006 Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Attensa

Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Software
$9M05 Dec 2005 Portland, Oregon, United States

You Software

Software
$2M29 Jun 2005 Portland, Oregon, United States

IPextreme

Automotive
Consulting
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Semiconductor
Software
$6M16 May 2005 California, United States

Enli Health Intelligence Corp.

Health Care
mHealth
Software
$7M26 Apr 2005 Beaverton, Oregon, United States

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Total investments 25
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.19
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NexPlanar

Nanotechnology
Product Design
Semiconductor
$14M27 Jun 2008 Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

NexPlanar

Nanotechnology
Product Design
Semiconductor
$14M09 Apr 2008 Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

NexPlanar

Nanotechnology
Product Design
Semiconductor
$7M11 Apr 2007 Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

Sentilla

Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
IT Management
Network Management Software
Software
Systems and Information Management
$3M23 Oct 2006 Redwood City, California, United States

Enli Health Intelligence Corp.

Health Care
mHealth
Software
$6M21 Oct 2006 Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Attensa

Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Software
$9M05 Dec 2005 Portland, Oregon, United States

You Software

Software
$2M29 Jun 2005 Portland, Oregon, United States

IPextreme

Automotive
Consulting
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Semiconductor
Software
$6M16 May 2005 California, United States

Enli Health Intelligence Corp.

Health Care
mHealth
Software
$7M26 Apr 2005 Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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