The Yard Ventures
51
14M
39
6.38
0.18
4
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2016 was created The Yard Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Waltham.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 participants. Despite the The Yard Ventures, startups are often financed by Manifest Investment Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Knight Enterprise Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Green D Ventures, Blue Ivy Ventures, Purple Arch Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Alumni Ventures Group, University Ventures, Webb Investment Network.
This organization was formed by Michael Madden. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.
The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from The Yard Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this The Yard Ventures works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline NewLeaf Symbiotics, Lacework, RapidSOS Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Financial Services.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 51
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 6.38
- Follow on index
- 0.18
- Investments by industry
- Software (13)
- Machine Learning (9)
- Artificial Intelligence (9)
- Education (7)
- Biotechnology (6) Show 107 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (44)
- Canada (2)
- Ghana (1)
- Switzerland (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 213M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.94
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEQ | 21 Sep 2022 | Information Technology | Seed | 8M | United States, Washington, Bellevue |
| RapidSOS | 19 Apr 2018 | Mobile Apps, mHealth, Public Safety | Early Stage Venture | 16M | United States, New York, New York |
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