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Walden Venture Capital

Founders Art Berliner George Sarlo Larry Marcus Matt Miller

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Total investments 88
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 58
Rounds per year 1.80
Lead investments 23
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 24
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Internet
  • Advertising
  • Enterprise Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bespoke Post

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Men's
$40M26 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

PathSpot

Food and Beverage
Personal Health
$6M21 May 2020 New York, New York, United States

Hatch

Baby
Consumer Electronics
Lifestyle
$9M04 May 2020 California, United States

PathSpot

Food and Beverage
Personal Health
$2M15 Aug 2019 New York, New York, United States

goTenna

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Messaging
Mobile
Privacy
Software
$16M18 Jun 2019 New York, New York, United States

Hatch

Baby
Consumer Electronics
Lifestyle
$6M19 Sep 2018 California, United States

SquareTwo

Gaming
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Publishing
$2M01 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Bespoke Post

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Men's
$8M18 Oct 2017 New York, United States

SquareTwo

Gaming
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Publishing
$2M31 Aug 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 88
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 1.80
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bespoke Post

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Men's
$40M26 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

PathSpot

Food and Beverage
Personal Health
$6M21 May 2020 New York, New York, United States

Hatch

Baby
Consumer Electronics
Lifestyle
$9M04 May 2020 California, United States

PathSpot

Food and Beverage
Personal Health
$2M15 Aug 2019 New York, New York, United States

goTenna

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Messaging
Mobile
Privacy
Software
$16M18 Jun 2019 New York, New York, United States

Hatch

Baby
Consumer Electronics
Lifestyle
$6M19 Sep 2018 California, United States

SquareTwo

Gaming
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Publishing
$2M01 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Bespoke Post

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
Men's
$8M18 Oct 2017 New York, United States

SquareTwo

Gaming
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Advertising
Mobile Apps
Mobile Devices
Publishing
$2M31 Aug 2017 San Francisco, California, United States
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