True Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

734

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

364

Rounds per year

38.63

Lead investments

158

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

89

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSAppsEnterprise Software

Summary

True Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This organization was formed by John Burke, Jon Callaghan, Phil Black, Toni Schneider, Tony Conrad. Besides them, we counted 12 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from True Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this True Ventures performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Hardware. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Duo Security, OpenDoor Labs, HashiCorp.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the True Ventures, startups are often financed by First Round Capital, Felicis Ventures, Uncork Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lowercase Capital, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TDF Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Wellness & FitnessRoboticsMedtechClimate tech
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
734
Lead investments
158
Exits
89
Rounds per year
38.63
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (232)
  • Information Technology (116)
  • Internet (95)
  • SaaS (86)
  • Enterprise Software (84)
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Investments by region
  • United States (638)
  • Canada (13)
  • Finland (12)
  • United Kingdom (20)
  • Israel (5)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
7
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
117M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
3.61
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sherpa 30 Apr 2021 Software, Mobile Apps, Travel, Tourism, Air Transportation Early Stage Venture 8M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada
strongDM 02 May 2024 Software, Security, Database Late Stage Venture 34M United States, California

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