Vertical Venture Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

61

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

6.78

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

4

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareHardwareAdvertisingCRM

Summary

In 2014 was created Vertical Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight POWWOW, Redeam, Portfolium. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Health Care.

Comparing to the other companies, this Vertical Venture Partners performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Vertical Venture Partners is 10-50 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by David Schwab. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Vertical Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Accel, Taner Halicioglu, Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Grayhawk Capital, Cobre Capital, Seven Peaks Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Seven Peaks Ventures, Grayhawk Capital, Cobre Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Deep Tech
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 4M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 80000000
Fund raised date
2021-07-26

Analytics

Total investments
61
Lead investments
10
Exits
4
Rounds per year
6.78
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • Health Care (18)
  • Biotechnology (16)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • SaaS (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (54)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Spain (1)
  • Colombia (1)
  • Ireland (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
743K
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
6

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