Tao Venture Partners

Total investments

8

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

5

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Other Commercial ProductsBiotechnologyAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareBig DataLife ScienceChemicalWaste ManagementRecycling

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the San Diego. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Tao Venture Partners works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2012.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ecoATM, ParAccel, Twist Bioscience. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Food and Beverage, Health Care. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Tao Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Walden International, Silicon Valley Bank, Paladin Capital Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden International, Paladin Capital Group, NanoDimension. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Asset Management Ventures (AMV), Silicon Valley Bank, Paladin Capital Group.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Life Science (2)
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Health Care (2)
  • Chemical (2)
  • Analytics (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (8)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
600M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ecoATM 01 May 2012 Other Commercial Products, Electrical Equipment, Consumer Electronics, Waste Management, Recycling Early Stage Venture 17M United States, California, San Diego

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