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Lead Edge Capital

Founders Mitchell Green Scott Booth

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Total investments 111
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$65M
Portfolio companies 78
Rounds per year 7.40
Lead investments 17
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 20
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
Summary

Lead Edge Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Lead Edge Capital, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Benchmark, Harrison Metal. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FLOODGATE, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Accel.

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 fund investment industries, there are Analytics, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alibaba, Uber, Delivery Hero. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. 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.

The fund was created by Mitchell Green, Scott Booth. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Lead Edge Capital works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from Lead Edge Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nucleus Security

Analytics
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$17M12 Feb 2024 Sarasota, Florida, United States

LiveView Technologies

Network Security
Security
Software
$50M14 Jun 2022 Orem, Utah, United States

Akuity

Developer Tools
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$20M16 May 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Nucleus Security

Analytics
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$26M23 Mar 2022 Sarasota, Florida, United States

Workiz

CRM
Enterprise Software
Recruiting
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$40M17 Nov 2021 San Diego, California, United States

H1

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
$100M16 Nov 2021 New York, New York, United States

ClickHouse

Big Data
Database
Software
$250M28 Oct 2021 Portola Valley, California, United States

Copado

Collaboration
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
IT Management
Software
$140M13 Sep 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Grafana Labs

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet
Open Source
Software
$220M24 Aug 2021 New York, New York, United States
News
Copado Raises $140 Million Series C Round to Expand Its DevOps Platform Across Leading Enterprise SaaS Clouds, Approaches $1.2 Billion Valuation

– Copado has raised $140m in Series C financing.
– The round was led by Insight Partners and includes participation from new investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Declaration Partners and DG Ventures, as well as existing investors Salesforce Ventures, ISAI Cap Venture, Lead Edge Capital, and Perpetual Investors. Strategic investor IBM Ventures also participated in the round.
– Proceeds will be used to expand its DevOps and AI-enabled testing solutions across the leading enterprise SaaS platforms driving today’s digital transformation projects.

LaunchDarkly Scores $200M in Series D

– LaunchDarkly from San Francisco has closed $200m in Series D.
– The financing led by Lead Edge Capital with new investors Top Tier Capital Partners and New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners as well as existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Redpoint, Threshold, Uncork Capital and Bloomberg Beta participating.
– LaunchDarkly serves 4 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster.

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Total investments 111
Average round size 65M
Rounds per year 7.40
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 20
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nucleus Security

Analytics
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$17M12 Feb 2024 Sarasota, Florida, United States

LiveView Technologies

Network Security
Security
Software
$50M14 Jun 2022 Orem, Utah, United States

Akuity

Developer Tools
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$20M16 May 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Nucleus Security

Analytics
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$26M23 Mar 2022 Sarasota, Florida, United States

Workiz

CRM
Enterprise Software
Recruiting
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$40M17 Nov 2021 San Diego, California, United States

H1

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
$100M16 Nov 2021 New York, New York, United States

ClickHouse

Big Data
Database
Software
$250M28 Oct 2021 Portola Valley, California, United States

Copado

Collaboration
Developer Platform
Developer Tools
IT Management
Software
$140M13 Sep 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Grafana Labs

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet
Open Source
Software
$220M24 Aug 2021 New York, New York, United States
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