The Valley Fund

Total investments

18

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

1.64

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataMedical

Summary

In 2013 was created The Valley Fund, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Valley Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), FundersClub. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Norwest Venture Partners.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Big Data, Real Time. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vida Health, NeoReach, HealthSherpa. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

Opposing the other organizations, this The Valley Fund works on 0 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Alex Gould, Raymond Choi, MD, Steve O'Hara. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
4
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.64
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (7)
  • Analytics (7)
  • Machine Learning (6)
  • Artificial Intelligence (5)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (18)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
60M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
3.77
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Qventus 16 Nov 2016 Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care, Hospital Early Stage Venture 13M United States, California, Mountain View
Sweep 03 Apr 2014 Financial Services, FinTech, B2B, Enterprise Software, Personal Finance, Banking, Travel, Business Travel Seed 1M United States, California, San Francisco

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