Southern Cross Venture Partners

Total investments

50

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

2.94

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

12

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyManufacturingCyber SecurityEnergyRenewable EnergySolar

Summary

In 2006 was created Southern Cross Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the North Sydney.

The current fund was established by Bill Bartee, Bob Christiansen, Gareth Dando, John Scull, Larry Marshall. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Southern Cross Venture Partners performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2012. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quantenna Communications, Wave Computing, Mantara. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Electronics.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Southern Cross Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Venrock, Talu Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Talu Ventures, Venrock, Sigma Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, Venrock, Talu Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
50
Lead investments
12
Exits
12
Rounds per year
2.94
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Software (24)
  • Manufacturing (11)
  • Energy (9)
  • Renewable Energy (9)
  • Analytics (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (36)
  • Australia (10)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
42M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
3.03
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Faceforward Inc. 09 Nov 2015 Cosmetics, Training, Education Seed 250K United States, California, Beverly Hills
Quantenna Communications 29 Apr 2009 Software, Semiconductor, Wireless Late Stage Venture 14M United States, California, San Jose
SCM Champs Inc. 01 Dec 2022 Seed
Sunman 01 Jul 2022 Manufacturing, CleanTech, Energy, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Solar Late Stage Venture 45M

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