Valley Oak Investments

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Davis, United States

Total investments

28

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

1.17

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareB2BFood and BeverageSaaSEnterprise SoftwareMedicalAgTechE-Commerce PlatformsAgriculture

Summary

Valley Oak Investments is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Opposing the other organizations, this Valley Oak Investments works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NatureBox, Farmeron, Sourcery Technologies. 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 Farming, Enterprise Software.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Valley Oak Investments, startups are often financed by Founder Collective, ff Venture Capital, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NextView Ventures, Rhapsody Venture Partners, Promus Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Promus Ventures, Accomplice, Two Sigma Ventures.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
0
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.17
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Food and Beverage (7)
  • Agriculture (7)
  • AgTech (6)
  • SaaS (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (28)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
235M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
7.42

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aesop Technology 01 Jul 2022 Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Digital Media Early Stage Venture 3M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Gradient Works 20 Oct 2021 Software Seed 2M United States, Texas, Austin
Gradient Works 20 Oct 2021 Software Seed 2M United States, Texas, Austin
Greyparrot 01 Mar 2019 Software, Information Technology, B2B, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Waste Management, Recycling Seed 1M England, London, United Kingdom

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