Zone Ventures

Total investments

39

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

19

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.51

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingFashionHardwareSemiconductor

Summary

The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight eStyle, MaxManager, Neven Vision. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Network Security. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Zone Ventures, startups are often financed by DFJ, Oak Investment Partners, Vulcan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Associates, Oak Investment Partners, Vulcan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, Oak Investment Partners, Partech.

The current fund was established by Frank M. Creer, Tim Draper. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2006. The important activity for fund was in 2000. This Zone Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
5
Exits
3
Follow on index
0.51
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • Internet (11)
  • Retail (9)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Fashion (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (34)
  • Vietnam (3)
Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.19

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DivX 03 May 2004 Software, Video, Consumer Electronics Late Stage Venture 7M United States, California, San Diego
Siimpel Corporation 16 Nov 2004 Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Hardware Early Stage Venture 9M United States, California
Sterve 19 Dec 2022 Information Technology Seed 400K Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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