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Windspeed Ventures

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.70
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Security
  • Software
  • Infrastructure
  • Wireless
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lola.com

Apps
Business Travel
Software
Travel
Travel Agency
01 Jan 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lineage Labs

Consumer Electronics
Marketing
Service Industry
$4M05 Feb 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Trilio

Cloud Computing
Software
01 Oct 2014 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

JumpCloud

Computer
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
SaaS
Security
Software
$1M20 Dec 2012 Colorado, United States

Bradford Networks

Mobile
Network Security
Security
$3M14 May 2012 Concord, New Hampshire, United States

Zipit Wireless

Infrastructure
Mobile
Wireless
$4M10 Jul 2010 Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Zipit Wireless

Infrastructure
Mobile
Wireless
$3M15 Feb 2010 Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Bradford Networks

Mobile
Network Security
Security
$8M05 May 2008 Concord, New Hampshire, United States

Zipit Wireless

Infrastructure
Mobile
Wireless
$2M15 Jan 2008 Greenville, South Carolina, United States

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Total investments 16
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 0.70
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lola.com

Apps
Business Travel
Software
Travel
Travel Agency
01 Jan 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lineage Labs

Consumer Electronics
Marketing
Service Industry
$4M05 Feb 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Trilio

Cloud Computing
Software
01 Oct 2014 Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

JumpCloud

Computer
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
SaaS
Security
Software
$1M20 Dec 2012 Colorado, United States

Bradford Networks

Mobile
Network Security
Security
$3M14 May 2012 Concord, New Hampshire, United States

Zipit Wireless

Infrastructure
Mobile
Wireless
$4M10 Jul 2010 Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Zipit Wireless

Infrastructure
Mobile
Wireless
$3M15 Feb 2010 Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Bradford Networks

Mobile
Network Security
Security
$8M05 May 2008 Concord, New Hampshire, United States

Zipit Wireless

Infrastructure
Mobile
Wireless
$2M15 Jan 2008 Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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