Tenaya Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

199

Average round size

33M

Portfolio companies

109

Rounds per year

13.27

Lead investments

35

Follow on index

0.45

Exits

62

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityCloud Computing

Summary

Tenaya Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2009. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Portola Valley. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, E-Commerce. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Qunar.com, Eventbrite, Infoblox.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Tenaya Capital, startups are often financed by Venrock, Menlo Ventures, Sigma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Index Ventures, Four Rivers Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shasta Ventures, Sequoia Capital Israel, Andreessen Horowitz.

The typical startup value when the investment from Tenaya Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Tenaya Capital works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series BSeries C
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
5M — 20M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
199
Lead investments
35
Exits
62
Rounds per year
13.27
Follow on index
0.45
Investments by industry
  • Software (98)
  • SaaS (60)
  • Enterprise Software (58)
  • Analytics (43)
  • Information Technology (38)
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Investments by region
  • United States (175)
  • China (8)
  • Indonesia (3)
  • Germany (3)
  • Israel (4)
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Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
15
Number of Decacorns
15
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
428M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.72
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Canopy 08 May 2024 Accounting, Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses, CRM Late Stage Venture 35M Utah, United States, Draper
Lyra Health 07 May 2018 Information Technology, Information Services, Health Care, Employee Benefits Early Stage Venture 65M United States, California

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