Tako Ventures

Total investments

12

Average round size

22M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.48

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

3

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsSaaSGeneticsMedicalCloud ComputingiOSCRM

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Larry Ellison.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Tako Ventures, startups are often financed by StarVest Partners, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, Sunrise Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are StarVest Partners, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StarVest Partners, Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Biotechnology. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Oracle-NetSuite, Theranos, Quark Pharmaceuticals.

The important activity for fund was in 2006. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2007. This Tako Ventures works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
4
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.48
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Software (6)
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • SaaS (5)
  • CRM (5)
  • Cloud Computing (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2006
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
NetSuite 20 Jun 2000 Software, SaaS, Cloud Computing, iOS, CRM Late Stage Venture 20M United States, California, Redwood Shores
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