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What does Focus Ventures invest in?
Focus Ventures invests most often at Series D and Series C (55% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Cloud Computing, Consumer and Enterprise Software.
Focus Ventures highlights
- 01
48 rounds on record
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Mostly Series D and Series C: 55% of its rounds
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19 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Filed 1 private fund offering with the SEC, the most recent in 2016-02From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- BuyoutDebtGrowthPre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Cloud ComputingConsumerEnterprise Software
- Based in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first48 appearances
- 2013
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jul
- 2012
5 rounds
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Mar
- Feb
- 2011
6 rounds
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2010
4 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- Jun
- Feb
- 2009
8 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- 2008
7 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- 2007
5 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- May
- May
- Feb
- 2006
3 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
KJKevin J. McQuillanManaging Director of General Partner to IssueriFiling they signed
We also hold 4 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Focus Ventures's funds
- Committed
- $40M
- Funds
- 1
- Vintages
- 2006
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Sept 2025.
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund1 fund$40MFund Vintage Committed Focus Ventures III 2006 $40M
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed19 in all
HaraBought by VerisaeUndisclosedOct 2013
Marin SoftwareListed$105MMar 2013
Crossbeam SystemsBought by Blue Coat SystemsUndisclosedDec 2012
MarkMonitorBought by Thomson ReutersUndisclosedJul 2012
Brand.netBought by ValassisUndisclosedJun 2012
The Fanfare GroupBought by Spirent CommunicationsUndisclosedFeb 2011
Six ApartBought by InfocomUndisclosedJan 2011
Six ApartBought by SAY MediaUndisclosedNov 2010
Six ApartBought by SAY MediaUndisclosedSept 2010
Mimosa SystemsBought by Iron Mountain$112MFeb 2010
Sequence DesignBought by Apache Design SolutionsUndisclosedSept 2009
Pure Digital TechnologiesBought by Cisco$590MMar 2009
DATAllegroBought by MicrosoftUndisclosedJul 2008
Centrality CommunicationsBought by SiRFUndisclosedJun 2007
OuterBay TechnologiesBought by Hewlett-PackardUndisclosedFeb 2006
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.