Windcrest Partners

Summary

Windcrest Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1967. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SmartRecruiters, GoodData, Passport New Media Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence. 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 is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2012. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2006. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Windcrest Partners works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Windcrest Partners is 1-5 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Michael Gellert. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Windcrest Partners, startups are often financed by General Catalyst, CVP, Andreessen Horowitz. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are General Catalyst, CVP, Andreessen Horowitz. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint.