Tugboat Ventures
39
8M
27
2.17
6
0.31
6
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.
The current fund was established by David Whorton.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2011. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Tugboat Ventures works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of 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 most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Social Media. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Aria Systems, MATRIXX Software, Kenna Security.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Tugboat Ventures, startups are often financed by Greylock Partners, DFJ, HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Greylock Partners, Felicis Ventures, DFJ. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), HPA, Greylock Partners.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 39
- Lead investments
- 6
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 2.17
- Follow on index
- 0.31
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (11)
- Mobile (10)
- Internet (10)
- Software (9)
- Retail (9) Show 63 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (38)
- Switzerland (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2011
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 13
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 5M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.87
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.69
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RichRelevance | 20 Dec 2007 | E-Commerce, Internet, Retail, Mobile, Personalization, Product Search | Early Stage Venture | 4M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| Kenna Security | 13 Nov 2012 | Software, SaaS, Cyber Security, Security | Early Stage Venture | 5M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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