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The Valley Fund

Founders Alex Gould Steve O'Hara

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.64
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Analytics
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Enterprise Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Simility

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Real Time
$17M12 Dec 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

Platina Systems

Computer
Infrastructure
Internet
Software
$13M01 Sep 2017 San Jose, California, United States

Vida Health

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
Personal Health
Therapeutics
$18M08 Dec 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Qventus

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Hospital
Machine Learning
$13M16 Nov 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

Simility

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Real Time
$1M01 Jun 2016 Palo Alto, California, United States

Adazza

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Internet
Machine Learning
SaaS
Telecommunications
04 Aug 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

VIDA

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Fashion
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Shopping
$1M12 Nov 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Vida Health

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
Personal Health
Therapeutics
$5M28 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Adazza

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Internet
Machine Learning
SaaS
Telecommunications
$1M01 Jul 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 18
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 1.64
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Simility

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Real Time
$17M12 Dec 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

Platina Systems

Computer
Infrastructure
Internet
Software
$13M01 Sep 2017 San Jose, California, United States

Vida Health

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
Personal Health
Therapeutics
$18M08 Dec 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Qventus

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Hospital
Machine Learning
$13M16 Nov 2016 Mountain View, California, United States

Simility

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Real Time
$1M01 Jun 2016 Palo Alto, California, United States

Adazza

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Internet
Machine Learning
SaaS
Telecommunications
04 Aug 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

VIDA

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Fashion
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Shopping
$1M12 Nov 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Vida Health

Health Care
Medical
mHealth
Personal Health
Therapeutics
$5M28 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Adazza

Analytics
Big Data
Enterprise Software
Internet
Machine Learning
SaaS
Telecommunications
$1M01 Jul 2014 San Francisco, California, United States
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