Trident Capital

Total investments

225

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

123

Rounds per year

7.50

Lead investments

67

Follow on index

0.45

Exits

70

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecuritySecurityAdvertising

Summary

Trident Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1993. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Trident Capital, startups are often financed by Advanced Technology Ventures, Hearst Ventures, EPIC Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hearst Ventures, EPIC Ventures, Boston Millennia Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Hearst Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures, Intel Capital.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The typical startup value when the investment from Trident Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. This Trident Capital works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The current fund was established by Donald Dixon, John Moragne. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 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 HomeAway, Flexport, KAYAK.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
225
Lead investments
67
Exits
70
Rounds per year
7.50
Follow on index
0.45
Investments by industry
  • Software (71)
  • Enterprise Software (49)
  • Internet (33)
  • Advertising (31)
  • SaaS (30)
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Investments by region
  • United States (216)
  • Canada (1)
  • Ireland (2)
  • China (1)
  • Australia (1)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
131M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.85
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Epoch 02 Oct 2000 Internet, Payments, Service Industry Early Stage Venture 40M United States, California, Santa Monica
Liftango 09 Mar 2018 Transportation, Apps, Parking Seed 675K New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
prevoty 06 Dec 2017 Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Network Security, Security, Developer Tools, Cloud Security Early Stage Venture 13M United States, California, Marina Del Rey
Wowzi 14 Dec 2021 Social Network Seed 2M Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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