Windspeed Ventures

Total investments

16

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.70

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InfrastructureSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareNetwork SecuritySecurityCloud ComputingWireless

Summary

Windspeed Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Lexington.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2012. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Windspeed Ventures works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Wireless, Mobile. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lineage Labs, Sixth Sense Media, Bradford Networks.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Windspeed Ventures, startups are often financed by Sunbridge Partners, South Carolina Research Authority, Meritus Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sunbridge Partners, South Carolina Research Authority, Meritus Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by South Carolina Research Authority, VentureSouth, Sunbridge Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
1
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.70
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (10)
  • Security (5)
  • Software (5)
  • Infrastructure (5)
  • Wireless (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
291M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.71

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Angstrong Tech06 Aug 2019HardwareEarly Stage Venture15MChina, Guangdong Province, Futian District
Bradford Networks21 Aug 2006Mobile, Network Security, SecurityEarly Stage Venture2MUnited States, New Hampshire, Concord
Bradford Networks14 May 2012Mobile, Network Security, SecurityLate Stage Venture3MUnited States, New Hampshire, Concord
Viximo24 Apr 2009Social Network, Social Media, Virtual GoodsEarly Stage Venture5MUnited States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

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