Trinity Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

485

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

249

Rounds per year

12.76

Lead investments

106

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

130

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCloud Computing

Summary

Trinity Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1986. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The current fund was established by Noel Fenton. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The typical startup value when the investment from Trinity Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Trinity Ventures works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Aruba Networks, zulily, New Relic. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. 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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Cloud Computing.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Trinity Ventures, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, K9 Ventures, Benchmark. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sapphire Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, InterWest Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Meritech Capital Partners, Benchmark, Accel.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/EnterpriseManufacturingCloud/InfrastructureDeveloper Tools Show 4 more
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
485
Lead investments
106
Exits
130
Rounds per year
12.76
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Software (205)
  • Enterprise Software (107)
  • SaaS (106)
  • Information Technology (74)
  • Internet (68)
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Investments by region
  • United States (453)
  • China (1)
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • Ireland (12)
  • Mexico (1)
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Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
11
Number of Decacorns
11
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
169M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.19
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Meteor Development 19 May 2015 Software Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, San Francisco
Pipefy 10 Jul 2019 Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Task Management, Sales Automation Early Stage Venture 45M United States, California, San Francisco

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