Vulcan

Total investments

31

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.84

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

10

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailInformation TechnologySecurityMarketplaceFashionDigital Media

Summary

In 2014 was created Vulcan, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Portsmouth. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Vulcan, startups are often financed by Zone Ventures, Weston Presidio Capital, Vulcan Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oak Investment Partners, Zone Ventures, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, Zone Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).

The important activity for fund was in 2000. 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 Vulcan is 100-500 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2004. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Broadband Access Systems, iMotors, Rioport. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
8
Exits
10
Rounds per year
0.84
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Internet (13)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Retail (5)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (29)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
172M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.84
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cytokinetics, Inc. 12 Oct 1999 Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, South San Francisco
eStyle 15 Feb 2000 Internet, Retail, Fashion Late Stage Venture 45M United States, California, Santa Monica
Ubrlocal 01 Apr 2013 Food and Beverage, Organic Food Seed 17K United States, Washington, Seattle
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