The Westly Group

Total investments

105

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

53

Rounds per year

6.18

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

16

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveE-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnergyRenewable EnergyEnergy Management

Summary

The Westly Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight View, Planet, Enerkem. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, CleanTech.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this The Westly Group works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the The Westly Group, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Claremont Creek Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, Sigma Partners, Claremont Creek Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, Collaborative Fund, Claremont Creek Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
105
Lead investments
17
Exits
16
Rounds per year
6.18
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Software (32)
  • Analytics (17)
  • Artificial Intelligence (17)
  • Machine Learning (16)
  • Renewable Energy (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (86)
  • Germany (5)
  • Canada (5)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Czechia (2)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
132M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
9
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DiviGas 18 Apr 2020 Manufacturing, Hardware, CleanTech, Chemical, Industrial, Advanced Materials, Clean Energy, Industrial Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering Seed Central, Singapore, Singapore
Learn to Win 12 Jun 2024 Commercial, Training, Sports Early Stage Venture 30M United States, California, Palo Alto
Optimal Dynamics 14 Apr 2022 Logistics, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Early Stage Venture 33M United States, New York, New York

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