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DBL Investors

Founders Ira Ehrenpreis Nancy Pfund

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Total investments 76
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$42M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 4.00
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.51
Exits 9
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Internet
Summary

DBL Investors is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from DBL Investors the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. This DBL Investors works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SolarCity, The RealReal, View The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, E-Commerce. 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.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the DBL Investors, startups are often financed by Trident Capital, XSeed Capital, Sigma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, Trident Capital, The Westly Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, e.ventures, Trident Capital.

The current fund was established by Nancy Pfund. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$105M14 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$105M26 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Pallet

$15M15 Mar 2022 -

Menlo Micro

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Hardware
Power Grid
Semiconductor
$150M09 Mar 2022 Irvine, California, United States

Spatial

Audio
Information Technology
Software
01 Oct 2021 California, United States

DroneSeed

CleanTech
Drones
Environmental Engineering
Forestry
Impact Investing
Industrial Automation
Natural Resources
Renewable Energy
Robotics
Social Impact
$36M29 Sep 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Wynd Technologies

Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing
Personal Health
$10M17 Aug 2021 Redwood City, California, United States

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$41M16 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$15M30 Sep 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 76
Average round size 42M
Rounds per year 4.00
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.51
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$105M14 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$105M26 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Pallet

$15M15 Mar 2022 -

Menlo Micro

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Hardware
Power Grid
Semiconductor
$150M09 Mar 2022 Irvine, California, United States

Spatial

Audio
Information Technology
Software
01 Oct 2021 California, United States

DroneSeed

CleanTech
Drones
Environmental Engineering
Forestry
Impact Investing
Industrial Automation
Natural Resources
Renewable Energy
Robotics
Social Impact
$36M29 Sep 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Wynd Technologies

Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing
Personal Health
$10M17 Aug 2021 Redwood City, California, United States

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$41M16 Jun 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

R-Zero

Health Care
Medical
Public Safety
$15M30 Sep 2020 San Francisco, California, United States
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