Walden Venture Capital

Total investments

88

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

58

Rounds per year

1.80

Lead investments

23

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

24

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareCloud ComputingMusicConsumer ElectronicsAdvertisingVideo Streaming

Summary

Walden Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1974. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Walden Venture Capital performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Walden Venture Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Security. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pandora, WebEx, Soundhound. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 was created by Art Berliner, George Sarlo, Larry Marcus, Matt Miller.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Walden Venture Capital, startups are often financed by DFJ, Walden International, Labrador Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, Labrador Ventures, Crosslink Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, Walden International, New Enterprise Associates.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
88
Lead investments
23
Exits
24
Rounds per year
1.80
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Software (25)
  • Mobile (22)
  • Internet (18)
  • Advertising (13)
  • Enterprise Software (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (84)
  • Israel (3)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
165M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.76
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bespoke Post 26 Oct 2021 E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Lifestyle, Men's Early Stage Venture 40M United States, New York, New York
Mode Media 01 Jul 2005 Digital Media, Video Streaming, Content Creators Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California
Kandji 24 Feb 2020 Software, Information Technology, Mobile, iOS Seed 4M United States, California, San Diego

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