Venture Capital Firm Research
(ContextBase, contextbase.github.io)
by John Akwei, ECMp ERMp Data Scientist
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Synopsis
The objective of this research is to examine Venture Capital firms, the StartUps they invest in, and the investment types involved.
The document begins with Exploratory Data Analysis of 115 Venture Capital firms combined. Then, the beginning of a Venture Capital Firm exploration app is scripted. Then, the remainder of this document performs Exploratory Data Analysis on the Venture Capital firm, “Norwest Ventures”. Thereby, demonstrating how any of the 115 Venture Capital firms are researchable via nearly identical scripting.
Much of the R programming language scripting in this document is kept proprietary for the purpose of individual consultation by ContextBase.
List of 115 Venture Capital Firms
## [1] Norwest Felicis Ventures
## [3] True Ventures Kliener Perkins
## [5] Khosla Binary Capital
## [7] Crosslink Capital Amadeus Capital Partners
## [9] AME Cloud Ventures August Capital
## [11] BlueRun Ventures Bessemer Venture Partners
## [13] e.ventures FirstMark Capital
## [15] Foundation Capital General Catalyst
## [17] Greycroft Partners Mithril Capital
## [19] Founders Fund LightSpeed
## [21] Madrona Qualcomm Ventures
## [23] Redpoint Ventures Rogers Venture Partners
## [25] iNovia Capital Sequoia Capital
## [27] Shasta Ventures Social | Capital
## [29] Softbank Trinity Ventures
## [31] Venrock Charles River Ventures
## [33] IDG Ventures Singtel Innov8
## [35] Singtel Innov9 Singtel Innov10
## [37] Singtel Innov11 Singtel Innov12
## [39] Singtel Innov13 Singtel Innov14
## [41] Singtel Innov15 Singtel Innov16
## [43] Singtel Innov17 Singtel Innov18
## [45] Singtel Innov19 Singtel Innov20
## [47] Singtel Innov21 Singtel Innov22
## [49] ABX (Austin Ventures) Blumberg Capital
## [51] Atomico Goodwater Capital
## [53] Andreessen Horowitz DN Capital
## [55] Granite Ventures Insight Venture Partners
## [57] Highland Capital Partners VantagePoint Capital Partners
## [59] Matrix Partners RRE
## [61] Benchmark Fairhaven Capital
## [63] Upfront Ventures Canaan Partners
## [65] Sutter Hill Ventures Comcast Ventures
## [67] Correlation Ventures Port Judith Capital
## [69] Freestyle Capital East Ventures
## [71] SV Angel Jackson Square Ventures
## [73] Birchmere Ventures Expansion VC
## [75] Pejman Mar Raptor Ventures
## [77] Morado Ventures Double M Partners
## [79] Karlin Ventures Montage Ventures
## [81] Commerce Ventures TenOneTen Ventures
## [83] Seraph Group China Rock Capital
## [85] Caffeinated Capital Venture51
## [87] Venture52 Venture53
## [89] Venture54 Venture55
## [91] Venture56 Venture57
## [93] Venture58 Venture59
## [95] Venture60 Venture61
## [97] Venture62 Venture63
## [99] Promus Ventures Walden Venture Capital
## [101] Corigin Ventures Sherpa Capital
## [103] Red Swan Primary Venture Partners
## [105] Great Oaks Venture Capital Altpoint Ventures
## [107] Forerunner Ventures GGV Capital
## [109] Spark Capital ff Venture
## [111] Bullpen Capital Cowboy Ventures
## [113] Thrive Capital Illuminate Ventures
## [115] Eastlink Ventures
## 115 Levels: ABX (Austin Ventures) ... Walden Venture CapitalList of Investment Types, and Investments Sums
## Type Amount
## 1 Angel 9.60
## 2 Convertible Note 26.73
## 3 Convertible Note(Lead) 1.00
## 4 Debt Financing 176.53
## 5 Debt Financing(Lead) 5.97
## 6 Private Equity 2190.21
## 7 Private Equity (Lead) 1.00
## 8 Private Equity(Lead) 500.00
## 9 Seed 1614.27
## 10 Seed (Lead) 367.90
## 11 Series 17846.04
## 12 Series (Lead) 5446.52
## 13 Series A 7595.72
## 14 Series A (Lead) 3255.81
## 15 Series C 20628.23
## 16 Series C (Lead) 3958.91
## 17 Series D 12833.50
## 18 Series D (Lead) 2817.40
## 19 Series E 7932.29
## 20 Series E (Lead) 688.00
## 21 Series F 4704.70
## 22 Series F (Lead) 466.50
## 23 Series G 2558.50
## 24 Series H 4.40
## 25 Undisclosed 291.80
## 26 Venture 4964.37
## 27 Venture (Lead) 1282.73## [1] "The average of All VC investments per type is 3784 Million USD."
## [1] "The average total Venture Capitalization of StartUps is 42 Million USD."
## [1] "The average total investments of Venture Capital Firms is 888 Million USD."
Linear Regression of Data
Venture Capital App - Basic Coding
OutputProcess <- function(VentureFirm, StartUp, InvestType) {
if (VentureFirm=="All") {VentureFirm <- firmData$VentureFirm}
if (StartUp=="All") {StartUp <- firmData$StartUp}
if (InvestType=="All") {InvestType <- firmData$InvestmentType}
out <- firmData[firmData$VentureFirm==VentureFirm &
firmData$StartUp==StartUp &
firmData$InvestmentType==InvestType,]
out
}
OutputProcess("All", "iRhythm Technologies", "All")## VentureFirm Date StartUp Investment
## 31 Norwest 2015-06-01 iRhythm Technologies $27.34M / Series E
## InvestmentAmount InvestmentType
## 31 27.34 Series EFinding Major StartUp Investments
Major_Series_E <- OutputProcess("All", "All", " Series E")
result <- subset(Major_Series_E, Major_Series_E$InvestmentAmount > 100)
majorList <- data.frame(result$StartUp,
result$InvestmentAmount,
result$InvestmentType)
colnames(majorList) <- c("StartUp", "Amount (Millions)", "Type")
majorList## StartUp Amount (Millions) Type
## 1 Slack 160 Series E
## 2 One Kings Lane 112 Series E
## 3 Avant 325 Series E
## 4 RetailNext 125 Series E
## 5 Kabbage 135 Series E
## 6 AppDirect 140 Series E
## 7 DataStax 106 Series E
## 8 RetailNext 125 Series E
## 9 AppDirect 140 Series E
## 10 Thumbtack 125 Series E
## 11 Ele.me 350 Series E
## 12 GrabTaxi 350 Series E
## 13 Ola 400 Series E
## 14 Slack 160 Series E
## 15 Avant 325 Series E
## 16 FanDuel 275 Series E
## 17 Taboola 117 Series E
## 18 DataStax 106 Series E
## 19 RetailNext 125 Series E
## 20 Lyft 530 Series E
## 21 Square 150 Series E
## 22 Slack 160 Series E
## 23 FanDuel 275 Series ENorwest Ventures Data
List of 67 StartUps w/ Average Disclosed Investment by Norwest Ventures
## NorwestInvestAvg
## Act-On Software 42.00
## Adaptive Insights 75.00
## Apigee 60.00
## Attune Technologies 10.00
## Avere Systems 20.00
## Bitglass 25.00
## Blue Jeans Network 76.50
## Borqs 0.00
## Bracket Computing 109.00
## Brite Semiconductor 8.00
## Capillary Technologies 59.00
## CareCloud 16.87
## Casper 69.95
## ClariPhy Communications 19.74
## ClearDATA 25.00
## CRMNEXT 7.00
## Crossover Health Management Services 15.00
## Dtex Systems 15.00
## Elemental Technologies 14.50
## Exabeam 35.00
## Exablox 16.00
## Extole 14.00
## Fashion & You 10.00
## Glint 9.00
## Good.Co 0.00
## Health Catalyst 111.00
## HoneyBook Inc. 22.00
## iCardiac Technologies 0.00
## IFTTT 30.00
## iProf Learning Solutions 9.00
## iRhythm Technologies 27.34
## Jet 140.00
## Madison Reed, Inc. 28.10
## Manthan Software Services 60.00
## Manthan Systems 0.00
## Mblox 43.50
## Minted 38.00
## Misfit Wearables 40.00
## ModCloth 15.00
## Modsy 3.00
## Motif Investing 35.00
## Omada Health 48.00
## Palerra Inc. 25.00
## Pepperfry.com 15.00
## personali 12.00
## Qubole 13.00
## Quikr 150.00
## Rafter 0.00
## Ravello Systems 28.00
## RevX 4.00
## RiseSmart 11.00
## RiverMend Health 60.00
## Shape Security 40.00
## SketchDeck 1.70
## Skyward 4.10
## StellaService 15.00
## sulekha.com 28.10
## Swiggy 35.00
## Telcare 32.50
## Threadflip 13.00
## TigerText 50.00
## true[x] 6.00
## Turn 80.00
## Udemy 97.00
## Velostrata 14.00
## Yatra 23.00
## ZIRX 36.40
List of Norwest Ventures Investment Types
## Type Amount
## 1 Debt Financing 43.50
## 2 Seed 10.65
## 3 Series 266.97
## 4 Series (Lead) 113.00
## 5 Series A 46.50
## 6 Series A (Lead) 39.00
## 7 Series C 371.10
## 8 Series C (Lead) 202.50
## 9 Series D 280.50
## 10 Series D (Lead) 38.00
## 11 Series E 206.84
## 12 Series F 90.00
## 13 Series G 135.00
## 14 Undisclosed 15.00
## 15 Venture 276.74
## 16 Venture (Lead) 60.00List of Norwest ‘Series A’ Investments
## StartUp Amount (Millions) Type
## 1 personali 12.0 Series A
## 2 ZIRX 6.4 Series A
## 3 Casper 13.1 Series A
## 4 CRMNEXT 7.0 Series A
## 5 Palerra Inc. 8.0 Series AList of Norwest ‘Series B’ Investments
## [1] StartUp Amount (Millions) Type
## <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
Norwest Quantile Chart
## 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
## 1.70 13.00 19.87 41.75 140.00Conclusions:
The objective of this research was to examine Venture Capital firms, StartUps, and investment types. and their investments. Exploratory Data Analysis revealed that the preferable way of summarizing the data is via a Data Application, or individual documentation of Venture Capital Firm investments, or StartUp funding histories.