University Venture Fund
25
9M
22
1.09
5
0.12
12
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
University Venture Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Salt Lake City.
The top activity for fund was in 2009. Opposing the other organizations, this University Venture Fund works on 18 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the University Venture Fund, startups are often financed by vSpring Capital, Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, Sanderling Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are vSpring Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, Sanderling Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Signal Peak Ventures, DFJ, vSpring Capital.
We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.
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 successful fund investment fields, there are Therapeutics, Pharmaceutical. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Galvanize, Barosense, Lineagen.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 25
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 12
- Rounds per year
- 1.09
- Follow on index
- 0.12
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (8)
- Biotechnology (8)
- Software (4)
- Therapeutics (4)
- Pharmaceutical (3) Show 53 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (24)
- Chile (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2009
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 15
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 109M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.64
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.34
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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