Vanguard Ventures

Summary

Vanguard Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1981. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Jose. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2008. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The typical startup value when the investment from Vanguard Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. This Vanguard Ventures works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The current fund was established by Jack Gill. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Information Technology. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Luminous Networks, Sylantro, Cooking.com Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Vanguard Ventures, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Zero Stage Capital, Pyramid Technology Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pyramid Technology Ventures, Dynafund Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pyramid Technology Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Split Rock Partners.