Velocity Financial Group

Total investments

5

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.33

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareRecruitingGamingSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEducationMarketingProfessional ServicesSocial RecruitingGambling

Summary

Velocity Financial Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 2007. The main department of described VC is located in the Wakefield. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Velocity Financial Group performs on 46 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2008. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Reflexis Systems, GameLogic, Schoolnet. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Retail, Education. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Velocity Financial Group, startups are often financed by Pequot Capital, Menlo Ventures, Fidelity Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TriplePoint Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Carlyle Group, Sageview Capital, New York State Common Retirement Fund.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
0
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Enterprise Software (3)
  • Software (2)
  • Professional Services (1)
  • Education (1)
  • Social Recruiting (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (5)
Peak activity year
2008

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
173M
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
2.45

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