WS Investments

Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from WS Investments is 10-50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2003. Comparing to the other companies, this WS Investments performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Larry W. Sonsini. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the WS Investments, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Polaris Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Polaris Partners, Physic Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TCV, Wayra, Sequoia Capital.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Cloudian, Driveroo The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, Marketplace. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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.