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Tao Venture Partners

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 5
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Life Science
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Chemical
  • Analytics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pryon

Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Management
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Security
$20M11 Jun 2019 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Twist Bioscience

Biotechnology
Chemical
Health Care
Life Science
$37M09 Jun 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Twist Bioscience

Biotechnology
Chemical
Health Care
Life Science
$26M27 May 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Citybot

Food and Beverage
Mobile
Travel
$750K30 Sep 2012 San Diego, California, United States

ecoATM

Consumer Electronics
Electrical Equipment
Other Commercial Products
Recycling
Waste Management
$17M01 May 2012 San Diego, California, United States

ParAccel

Analytics
Big Data
Information Technology
$22M29 Jun 2009 California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 18M
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pryon

Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Management
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Security
$20M11 Jun 2019 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Twist Bioscience

Biotechnology
Chemical
Health Care
Life Science
$37M09 Jun 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Twist Bioscience

Biotechnology
Chemical
Health Care
Life Science
$26M27 May 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Citybot

Food and Beverage
Mobile
Travel
$750K30 Sep 2012 San Diego, California, United States

ecoATM

Consumer Electronics
Electrical Equipment
Other Commercial Products
Recycling
Waste Management
$17M01 May 2012 San Diego, California, United States

ParAccel

Analytics
Big Data
Information Technology
$22M29 Jun 2009 California, United States
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