Trinity Ventures

Headquarters Location

United States, Menlo Park

About

Trinity Ventures is the renowned VC, which was created in 1986. The fund is located in United States, North America. The the headquarters of this VC is in Menlo Park.

The fund was established by Noel Fenton. The overall number of key employees in the fund's team is 9.

The fund typically invests in rounds with 4-5 participants. Aside from Trinity Ventures, start-ups are often funded by Sequoia Capital, K9 Ventures, Benchmark and 210 other funds. The fund often co-invests with Sapphire Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, overall with 230 funds from our list. In subsequent rounds, the fund is usually supported by Meritech Capital Partners, Benchmark, Accel, out of 171 investors from our database.

Among their most successful investment fields, we have identified Software, Cloud Computing. Also, because of its portfolio diversification tendency, we can highlight 80 more industries for this fund. The fund has no specific requirements for the number of founders in a start-up. When a start-up has 5+ founders, the probability of closing the deal is low. Among the most popular portfolio start-ups of the fund, are Aruba Networks, zulily, New Relic. The average start-up age at the time of investment by this fund is 4-5. The country of its establishment and the country of its most frequent investments coincides - United States. However, start-ups from 5 other countries can be found in the fund's portfolio.

This fund was the most active in 2013. Besides, in 2019 the fund was active. Typical investments for this fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. In terms of the fund's performance, this VC has 8 percentage points more exits when compared to other organizations. The highest number of exits from this fund were in 2014. Trinity Ventures is involved in 1 percentage points less than the average amount of lead investments when compared with other funds. At the time of investment by Trinity Ventures, a typical start-up valuation would be 100-500 millions dollars. The fund usually participates in 13-24 investment rounds per year.

Year Founded

1986

Fund Activity

Operative

Mail Rule [rules by which you can get an email of an interesting for you fund employee, knowing only the name and surname of this employee]

Domain name: trinityventures.com; User name format in descending order of probability: first, last, last first_initial, first last_initial, first last

Group Appearance [how often fund is operating separately from groups with shared interest]

96.7% of cases

Investments per Year [average amount of rounds in which fund participates each year]

7-12

Follow-on Index [how often fund is ready to support its portfolio startup at next rounds]

41.9% of cases

Average Multiplicator [the average ratio of the last valuation of portfolio startups to their total amount of financing raised]

x8.1

Average Portfolio Company
Exit Age [the average age of portfolio startups at which they go public or become acquired]

2.4 years

Decision Makers / Strategy
Similarity Index [see explanation at unicorn-nest.com/dataset-what-we-tweet-vs-what-we-invest]

0.13 out of 1

Success / Strategy Similarity
Index [the matching between fund's investment strategy and its proved successes in the form of portfolio startups high valuations]

0.8 out of 1

Number of Unicorns [amount of portfolio companies, which were valuated at more then $1B]

6

Funds Investing in Previous
Rounds

Sequoia Capital, K9 Ventures, Benchmark

Funds Investing Together

Sapphire Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, InterWest Partners

Funds Investing in Following
Rounds

Meritech Capital Partners, Benchmark, Accel