Telos Venture Partners

Total investments

10

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.38

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareEdTechEducationManufacturingElectronicsBusiness DevelopmentLanguage Learning

Summary

In 1995 was created Telos Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Los Altos.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Comparing to the other companies, this Telos Venture Partners performs on 15 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Telos Venture Partners is 50-100 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Khimetrics, nQuire Software, Clear Shape Technologies. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Business Development, Semiconductor.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Telos Venture Partners, startups are often financed by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), RWI Group, NTT Communications. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RWI Group, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Goldman Sachs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), RWI Group, National Semiconductor.

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Analytics

Total investments
10
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.38
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Retail (3)
  • Electronics (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
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
Clear Shape Technologies 09 Jun 2005 Software, Manufacturing, Electronics Early Stage Venture 5M United States, California, San Jose

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