Tao Capital Partners
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
95
56M
55
4.32
6
0.42
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Tao Capital Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Agriculture. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline PAX Labs, Zymergen, DreamBox Learning 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 standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Tao Capital Partners, startups are often financed by VentureSouth, Upstate Carolina Angel Network, Prelude Ventures, LLC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GV, Prelude Ventures, LLC, S2G Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VentureSouth, Upstate Carolina Angel Network, S2G Ventures.
We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.
When the investment is from Tao Capital Partners the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Tao Capital Partners works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 95
- Lead investments
- 6
- Exits
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 4.32
- Follow on index
- 0.42
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (21)
- Manufacturing (17)
- Health Care (17)
- Software (13)
- Food Processing (11) Show 99 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (91)
- Spain (1)
- China (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 6
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 661M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.97
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.49
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Cometeer | 19 Oct 2021 | Food and Beverage | Early Stage Venture | 35M | United States, Massachusetts, Bedford |
Entos | 18 Jun 2024 | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | Early Stage Venture | 50M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
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