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Vertex Ventures

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Total investments 509
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 292
Rounds per year 14.14
Lead investments 119
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 82
Key employees 17
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kapiva Ayurveda

E-Commerce
Retail
$10M23 Sep 2024 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Deagent AI

$6M07 Aug 2024 -

Cyberhaven

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
$88M11 Jun 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Firefly

Software
$23M29 May 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

ReturnKey

01 May 2024 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

L3E7

$10M26 Apr 2024 -

CARV

$10M25 Apr 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

DOT Compliance

Cloud Management
Events
Information Technology
Management Consulting
$17M15 Apr 2024 Ness Ziona, HaMerkaz, Israel

Cycle Network

27 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
News
GrowthSpace Raises $15M in Series A Funding

– GrowthSpace is a New York-based company focused on personalized talent development programs.
– The company raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by M12 and Vertex Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to grow the team globally and expand its technology, which connects employees to relevant experts at scale.

Customer success platform EverAfter raises $13M

– EverAfter, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based customer success platform, announced that it raised $13 million in seed funding contributed by TLV Partners and Vertex Ventures, with participation from Benny Shneider, Zohar Gilon, and Amit Gilon.
– The proceeds will be put toward expanding the company’s workforce, CEO Noa Danon says, as well as growing EverAfter’s product footprint.
– In the coming years, 89% of businesses are expected to compete mainly on customer experience, according to Gartner — a stat highlighting the importance of customer retention.
– Attracting a new customer is on average 6 to 7 times more expensive than retaining a current one, and the churn associated with customer onboarding and retention are estimated to reach $136 billion annually in the U.S.

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Total investments 509
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 14.14
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 119
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 82
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kapiva Ayurveda

E-Commerce
Retail
$10M23 Sep 2024 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Deagent AI

$6M07 Aug 2024 -

Cyberhaven

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
$88M11 Jun 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Firefly

Software
$23M29 May 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

ReturnKey

01 May 2024 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

L3E7

$10M26 Apr 2024 -

CARV

$10M25 Apr 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

DOT Compliance

Cloud Management
Events
Information Technology
Management Consulting
$17M15 Apr 2024 Ness Ziona, HaMerkaz, Israel

Cycle Network

27 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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