Woodside Fund

Total investments

49

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

1.23

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

18

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySemiconductorElectronicsDigital Media

Summary

Woodside Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 1983. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Redwood Shores.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Aristos Logic, Matisse Networks, Athena Design Systems. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Digital Media. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by Charles E. Greb, Robert E. Larson, Vincent M. Occhipinti. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Woodside Fund, startups are often financed by DCM Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, ONSET Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ONSET Ventures, DCM Ventures, QTV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DCM Ventures, ONSET Ventures, QTV Capital.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2000. This Woodside Fund works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
7
Exits
18
Rounds per year
1.23
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (18)
  • Enterprise Software (11)
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Semiconductor (8)
  • Network Security (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (45)
  • France (4)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
237M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
1.07
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aristos Logic 17 Mar 2003 Software, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Hardware Late Stage Venture 20M United States, California
SS8 Networks 30 Nov 2010 Cyber Security, Network Security, Security, Law Enforcement Early Stage Venture 12M United States, California, Milpitas
Terabeam 05 Jul 1997 Manufacturing, Optical Communication Seed 0 United States, Washington

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