UCLA Ventures
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7M
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0.57
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- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
UCLA Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Los Angeles.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the UCLA Ventures, startups are often financed by Tech Coast Angels, Quest Venture Partners, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Wavemaker Partners, Vivo Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by WS Investments, Versant Ventures, Reimagined Ventures.
The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this UCLA Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.
The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Big Data, Analytics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Neural Analytics, Trendalytics Innovation Labs.
This organization was formed by Michael Silton. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 12
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.57
- Investments by industry
- Analytics (3)
- Health Care (3)
- E-Commerce (3)
- Biotechnology (3)
- Predictive Analytics (2) Show 38 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (12)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 201M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 20.27
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FanFood | 06 Mar 2019 | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Mobile Apps, Sports, Food Delivery | Seed | 2M | United States, Illinois, Chicago |
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