SmartForest Ventures

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.