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WR Hambrecht

Founders Robert Hambrecht William Hambrecht

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Total investments 37
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 1.48
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 14
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Health Care
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
Summary

WR Hambrecht is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The fund was created by Robert Hambrecht, William Hambrecht. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the WR Hambrecht, startups are often financed by Marc Benioff, DFJ, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, GE Equity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, Greycroft, Esther Dyson.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. The typical startup value when the investment from WR Hambrecht is 100-500 millions dollars. This WR Hambrecht works on 5 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 increased amount of exits for fund were in 2004. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LexisNexis, Salesforce, TangoMe. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, E-Commerce.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gabbi

Health Care
Sex Tech
$4M27 Oct 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

Aessense Holding

Agriculture
AgTech
Consumer Electronics
Farming
Information Technology
10 Jan 2022 Harbor City, California, United States

Gabbi

Health Care
Sex Tech
$1M07 Jun 2021 Portland, Oregon, United States

Buoy Health

Apps
Health Care
Information Technology
Internet
$37M10 Nov 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lirio

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$13M15 Feb 2019 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

ElMindA

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$28M16 Nov 2015 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

TangoMe

Android
Apps
iOS
Messaging
Mobile
Social Network
Video Streaming
$500K01 Jun 2010 Mountain View, California, United States

Splashtop

Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
SaaS
Software
$10M10 Oct 2007 San Jose, California, United States

YeePay

Finance
FinTech
$3M01 Dec 2006 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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Portland startup Gabbi raises $1M to develop breast cancer risk assessment tool

– Gabbi, a Portland-based health care startup, has raised $1m in a pre-seed round of funding.
– Backers include WR Hambrecht + Co, Plug and Play Tech Center, StartUp Health, and OzoneX Ventures, and individual angel investors David Kidder, CEO of the information services company Bionic, and Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe.
– The company is piloting a consumer-friendly breast cancer risk calculator that can propose a health action plan and link users to a network of women in the same risk population.
– Gabbi’s risk calculator prompts a woman to enter information such as her age, ethnicity, and age at first period, and then provides her with an assessment of her risk of breast cancer.

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Total investments 37
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 1.48
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gabbi

Health Care
Sex Tech
$4M27 Oct 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

Aessense Holding

Agriculture
AgTech
Consumer Electronics
Farming
Information Technology
10 Jan 2022 Harbor City, California, United States

Gabbi

Health Care
Sex Tech
$1M07 Jun 2021 Portland, Oregon, United States

Buoy Health

Apps
Health Care
Information Technology
Internet
$37M10 Nov 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lirio

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$13M15 Feb 2019 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

ElMindA

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$28M16 Nov 2015 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

TangoMe

Android
Apps
iOS
Messaging
Mobile
Social Network
Video Streaming
$500K01 Jun 2010 Mountain View, California, United States

Splashtop

Enterprise Software
Internet of Things
SaaS
Software
$10M10 Oct 2007 San Jose, California, United States

YeePay

Finance
FinTech
$3M01 Dec 2006 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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