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Spinnaker Ventures

Founders Patrick R. Bischoff

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.32
Lead investments 0
Exits 4
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Wireless
  • Enterprise Software
  • Embedded 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bastille Networks Internet Security

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
Security
$27M21 Sep 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Sonics

Digital Entertainment
Embedded Systems
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$20M14 Jan 2002 Milpitas, California, United States

NowDocs

Document Management
E-Commerce
Software
$31M31 Jul 2000 Mankato, Minnesota, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 0.32
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bastille Networks Internet Security

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
Security
$27M21 Sep 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Sonics

Digital Entertainment
Embedded Systems
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Wireless
$20M14 Jan 2002 Milpitas, California, United States

NowDocs

Document Management
E-Commerce
Software
$31M31 Jul 2000 Mankato, Minnesota, United States
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