Verizon Ventures

Summary

Verizon Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. Verizon Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Basking Ridge.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Verizon Ventures, startups are often financed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Techstars, True Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DCM Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Rhodium.

The overall number of key employees were 7.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Verizon Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Verizon Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Big Data, Machine Learning. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline NantHealth, SparkCognition, BlueKai For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.