Windward Ventures
36
13M
15
1.38
4
0.58
10
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Windward Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Diego. The venture was found in North America in United States.
Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.
The top activity for fund was in 2005. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Windward Ventures performs on 5 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Windward Ventures, startups are often financed by Mission Ventures, Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mission Ventures, Intel Capital, Palomar Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mission Ventures, Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners.
Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Solarflare Communications, SynergEyes, Nirvanix. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 36
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 1.38
- Follow on index
- 0.58
- Investments by industry
- Enterprise Software (18)
- Software (15)
- Cloud Computing (9)
- Information Technology (8)
- Manufacturing (7) Show 27 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (35)
- Peak activity year
- 2005
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 6M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.92
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.16
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ally Commerce | 01 Oct 2015 | E-Commerce, Software, Manufacturing, Marketplace, Outsourcing | Early Stage Venture | United States, Atlanta, Georgia | |
| E20 Communications | 20 Nov 2000 | Internet, Manufacturing, Network Hardware | Late Stage Venture | 38M | United States, California |
| Nirvanix | 19 Dec 2007 | Enterprise Software, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Private Cloud | Early Stage Venture | 18M | United States, California, San Diego |
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