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Vanguard Ventures

Founders Jack Gill

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Total investments 64
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 31
Rounds per year 1.52
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.52
Exits 19
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Manufacturing
  • Health Care
  • Internet
  • Software
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Artificial Muscle Inc.

Electronics
Energy
Energy Efficiency
$20M07 Jun 2007 California, United States

Casabi

Content
Internet
Mobile
$10M12 Mar 2007 California, United States

Polychromix

Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Wireless
$2M05 Feb 2007 Massachusetts, United States

2AF Stores

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$12M07 Jun 2006 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Browster

Software
$5M03 Jan 2006 -

Casabi

Content
Internet
Mobile
$2M19 Dec 2005 California, United States

Architecture
Data Center
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Web Hosting
$13M13 Dec 2005 Mountain View, California, United States

2AF Stores

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$20M15 Jul 2005 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Radiance Technologies

Digital Entertainment
Information Technology
Logistics
$8M15 Sep 2004 California, United States

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Total investments 64
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 1.52
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.52
Exits 19
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Artificial Muscle Inc.

Electronics
Energy
Energy Efficiency
$20M07 Jun 2007 California, United States

Casabi

Content
Internet
Mobile
$10M12 Mar 2007 California, United States

Polychromix

Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Wireless
$2M05 Feb 2007 Massachusetts, United States

2AF Stores

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$12M07 Jun 2006 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Browster

Software
$5M03 Jan 2006 -

Casabi

Content
Internet
Mobile
$2M19 Dec 2005 California, United States

Architecture
Data Center
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Web Hosting
$13M13 Dec 2005 Mountain View, California, United States

2AF Stores

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$20M15 Jul 2005 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Radiance Technologies

Digital Entertainment
Information Technology
Logistics
$8M15 Sep 2004 California, United States
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