Tandem

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Burlingame, United States

Total investments

66

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

49

Rounds per year

4.12

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

13

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileAppsConsumer ElectronicsElectronicsInternet of ThingsiOSAndroid

Summary

Tandem Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Burlingame. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Tandem Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Tandem Capital performs on 10 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PagerDuty, Bellwether Coffee, Outdoorsy. 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 fund investment industries, there are Internet of Things, E-Commerce.

The fund was created by Doug Renert, Sunil Bhargava. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Tandem Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Founder Collective, e.ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, e.ventures, Autotech Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GGV Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
MobilityLogisticsMedia/ContentFoodtechProptech/Real Estate
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
Up to 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
66
Lead investments
4
Exits
13
Rounds per year
4.12
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (15)
  • Software (11)
  • Apps (11)
  • Internet of Things (9)
  • iOS (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (58)
  • Canada (2)
  • Spain (2)
  • India (3)
  • Singapore (1)
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
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
43M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
8.61
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Deako 30 Jun 2016 Electronics, Internet of Things, Smart Building, Lighting Seed 3M United States, Washington, Seattle
PagerDuty 29 Sep 2010 Information Technology, SaaS, Cloud Computing, IT Management Seed 1M United States, California, San Francisco

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