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Velocity Venture Capital

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.56
Lead investments 1
Exits 4
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Energy
  • CleanTech
  • Wind Energy
  • Information Technology
Summary

Velocity Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2005. The main office of represented VC is situated in the El Dorado Hills. The company was established in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Wind Energy, Enterprise Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline OpSource, Fundability, BEZ Systems

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Velocity Venture Capital performs on 11 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. 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 high activity for fund was in 2008.

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 3-4 partakers. Despite the Velocity Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Warburg Pincus, Technology Development Fund, Ridgewood Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Strategis Early Ventures, BEV Capital, Sierra Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Technology Development Fund, Velocity Equity Partners, Ascent Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meniga

Banking
Data Integration
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$6M11 Jul 2013 England

$6M09 Jun 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

WinDensity

CleanTech
Energy
Wind Energy
$13M28 Jan 2008 Lincoln, California, United States

CleanTech
Energy
Wind Energy
$1M25 Jan 2008 California, United States

Freepath

Software
$1M01 Jan 2008 California, United States

BEZ Systems

Analytics
Business Development
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$7M18 Sep 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.56
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 1
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meniga

Banking
Data Integration
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$6M11 Jul 2013 England

$6M09 Jun 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

WinDensity

CleanTech
Energy
Wind Energy
$13M28 Jan 2008 Lincoln, California, United States

CleanTech
Energy
Wind Energy
$1M25 Jan 2008 California, United States

Freepath

Software
$1M01 Jan 2008 California, United States

BEZ Systems

Analytics
Business Development
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$7M18 Sep 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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