Startup Capital Ventures

Menlo Park, United States
Venture Capital
Active
Total investments

58

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

3.22

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

10

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSBig DataCyber SecurityPredictive Analytics

Summary

Startup Capital Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2005. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park. The company was established in North America in United States.

The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Startup Capital Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The current fund was established by John Davidson, John Dean. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline WhiteHat Security, TF Holdings, VideoAmp For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Advertising.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Startup Capital Ventures, startups are often financed by Anthem Venture Partners, ZenShin Capital, Tsingyuan Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Altos Ventures, ZenShin Capital, Seraph Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StarVest Partners, Sequoia Capital, Grace Beauty Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechCloud/InfrastructureB2B/EnterpriseCybersecurityHealthcare Show 1 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
Check size
250K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
58
Lead investments
8
Exits
10
Rounds per year
3.22
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Predictive Analytics (14)
  • Software (12)
  • Machine Learning (12)
  • Artificial Intelligence (12)
  • SaaS (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (49)
  • Canada (9)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
53M
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.78

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Packet Island01 Jun 2006Software, SaaS, Embedded Systems, VoIPEarly Stage Venture2MUnited States, California, Cupertino
Pixlee01 Apr 2016E-Commerce, Mobile, Social Media, Advertising, Digital Media, Brand MarketingSeedUnited States, California, San Francisco
TourRadar10 Jun 2013Marketplace, Travel, Search Engine, TourismSeed0Austria, Vienna
ZeeMee01 Jul 2021Internet, Apps, EducationEarly Stage VentureUnited States, California, Redwood City

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