Vertex Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Palo Alto, United States
504
27M
290
14.00
117
0.42
82
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Vertex Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1988.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Vertex Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Vertex Ventures performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.
Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GrabTaxi, Horizon Robotics, 91 Boyuan Wireless. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Vertex Ventures, startups are often financed by Pitango Venture Capital, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Giza Venture Capital, Gemini Israel Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viola Ventures, Vertex Ventures HC, Gemini Israel Ventures.
The overall number of key employees were 17.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Check size
- 500K — 10M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 541000000
- Fund raised date
- 2023-09-12
Analytics
- Total investments
- 504
- Lead investments
- 117
- Exits
- 82
- Rounds per year
- 14.00
- Follow on index
- 0.42
- Investments by industry
- Software (128)
- Information Technology (69)
- Internet (58)
- E-Commerce (51)
- SaaS (51) Show 288 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (201)
- China (77)
- Israel (90)
- Singapore (39)
- India (33) Show 12 more
- Peak activity year
- 2017
- Number of Unicorns
- 12
- Number of Decacorns
- 13
- Number of Minotaurs
- 6
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 196M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.98
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.07
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberhaven | 11 Jun 2024 | Information Technology, Cyber Security, Security, Cloud Security | Late Stage Venture | 88M | United States, California, Palo Alto |
| Higharc | 15 Feb 2024 | Internet, Construction, Smart Home, Architecture, Property Development | Early Stage Venture | 53M | United States, North Carolina, Durham |
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