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Office Locations:
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600 Hansen Way, Suite 100
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone: 650-854-1800
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- Early
- Expansion
- Growth
- Seed
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Energy & Clean Tech
Information Technology
Life Sciences & Healthcare
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Leader Ventures is a venture firm specializing in investments in seed, start-up, early stage, mid venture, and late-stage private companies. The firm seeks to invest in growth companies and provides growth capital and asset loans. It typically invests in all stages of company life cycle. Leader primarily invests in companies of different developmental stages and across technology, clean tech, and life science industries. It prefers to invest in the United States. The firm's typical financing to a company is $1M-$5M, but varies with the stage of the company. Leader invests in the form of debt and equity in public and private companies involving the provision of both secured loans and warrants. It invests in venture debt, structured debt, and equity co-investment opportunities. Leader Ventures was founded in 2005 with $400 million; the investment professionals of Leader Ventures came from Dominion Capital Management and Western Technology Investment.
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Investment Firm Key
VC = Venture Capital
PE = Private Equity
A = Angel
I = Incubator
MB = Merchant Bank
VD = Venture Debt
FI = Family Investment Office
FOF = Fund of Funds
ED = Economic Development Office
TT = Technology Transfer Office
CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
SEC = Secondary Purchaser
HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
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| COMPANY STAGE | REVENUE |
| Venture Capital | |
Seed Stage
(includes "pre-seed," or
concept stage) | No Revenue |
| Early Stage | Minimal
Revenue |
Growth Stage
(also called Mid-stage) | $2M-$7M |
Expansion Stage
(also called Late-stage) | $7M and greater |
| Private Equity | |
| Lower Middle Market | $10M-$249M |
| Middle Market | $250M-$499M |
| Upper Middle Market | $500M-$1B |
| Large Cap | >$1B |
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