Walden International

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

288

Average round size

31M

Portfolio companies

188

Rounds per year

7.78

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

58

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingHardwareSemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

Walden International appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1987. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Telecommunications, Internet. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline WebEx, GoPro, CloudMinds

Comparing to the other companies, this Walden International performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Walden International is 50-100 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Walden International, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Granite Ventures.

The fund was created by Lip Tan, Roni Hefetz. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailMedia/ContentSemiconductorsEcommerce Show 5 more
Stage focus
Series DSeries ASeries ESeries FSeries B Show 2 more
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
288
Lead investments
24
Exits
58
Rounds per year
7.78
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Software (70)
  • Manufacturing (63)
  • Semiconductor (50)
  • Electronics (34)
  • Information Technology (28)
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Investments by region
  • China (86)
  • United States (155)
  • Japan (1)
  • Israel (6)
  • Switzerland (3)
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Peak activity year
2007
Number of Unicorns
10
Number of Decacorns
12
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
312M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
4.42
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

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