Spinnaker Ventures

Total investments

8

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

8

Rounds per year

0.32

Exits

4

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareDigital EntertainmentService IndustryWirelessMobile DevicesEmbedded Systems

Summary

Spinnaker Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Media, Security. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ascentive, LLC, NowDocs, Stellcom.

This organization was formed by Patrick R. Bischoff. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Spinnaker Ventures performs on 14 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Spinnaker Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Spinnaker Ventures, startups are often financed by Texas Instruments, Sony, Keel Funds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mission Ventures, Weber Capital, Texas Instruments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TL Ventures, Nimes Capital, Easton Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • Information Technology (2)
  • Wireless (2)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • Embedded Systems (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
14M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.33

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bastille Networks Internet Security 21 Sep 2017 Cyber Security, Security, Internet of Things Early Stage Venture 27M United States, California, San Francisco
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