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Velocity Equity Partners

Founders Barney Corning Sam Foster

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 13
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 10
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Analytics
  • Business Development
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Boston.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Leasing, Enterprise Software. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Peoplefilter Technology, Profind, Ammasso Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The current fund was established by Barney Corning, Sam Foster. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The top activity for fund was in 2005. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Velocity Equity Partners works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Velocity Equity Partners, startups are often financed by JMI Equity, MassVentures, Egan-Managed Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Egan-Managed Capital, River Cities Capital Funds, Masthead Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by North Hill Ventures, Dunrath Capital, Ascent Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enterprise Software
Information Services
Real Time
Software
$5M04 Feb 2009 Massachusetts, United States

Nexaweb Inc.

Apps
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Software
Web Development
$10M25 Sep 2006 Massachusetts, United States

Peoplefilter Technology

Advertising
Information Technology
Software
$4M13 Jan 2006 Illinois, United States

Sonexis Technology

Enterprise Software
Video Conferencing
$2M02 Aug 2005 Pennsylvania, United States

BEZ Systems

Analytics
Business Development
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$4M05 Jan 2005 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dotomi

Advertising
Digital Media
Marketing
30 Sep 2004 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Retail Solutions

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Retail
SaaS
Software
$4M27 Sep 2004 Mountain View, California, United States

Webdialogs

Enterprise Software
Online Portals
Video Conferencing
$1M21 Jan 2004 Massachusetts, United States

Reflectent Software

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$10M16 Jan 2004 Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 4M
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enterprise Software
Information Services
Real Time
Software
$5M04 Feb 2009 Massachusetts, United States

Nexaweb Inc.

Apps
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Software
Web Development
$10M25 Sep 2006 Massachusetts, United States

Peoplefilter Technology

Advertising
Information Technology
Software
$4M13 Jan 2006 Illinois, United States

Sonexis Technology

Enterprise Software
Video Conferencing
$2M02 Aug 2005 Pennsylvania, United States

BEZ Systems

Analytics
Business Development
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$4M05 Jan 2005 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dotomi

Advertising
Digital Media
Marketing
30 Sep 2004 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Retail Solutions

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Retail
SaaS
Software
$4M27 Sep 2004 Mountain View, California, United States

Webdialogs

Enterprise Software
Online Portals
Video Conferencing
$1M21 Jan 2004 Massachusetts, United States

Reflectent Software

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$10M16 Jan 2004 Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
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