Gunderson Dettmer
VC Fund
Redwood City, United States
Gunderson Dettmer is a VC fund in Redwood City focused on SaaS and Internet. Gunderson Dettmer is the only business law firm of its kind—singularly focused on the global venture capital and emerging technology marketplace. With nearly 250 attorneys in nine offices—Silicon Valley, Ann Arbor, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Singapore and Beijing, China—we represent more than 2,500 high-growthcompanies from a broad range of industries in every stage of development. We provide our clients with counsel on general corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, financings, intellectual property and commercial agreements, strategic alliances, executive compensation, and tax matters.The Firm is a recognized international leader in the representation of venture capital and private equity investment funds. With extensive experience in North America, China, the EU and Latin America, our attorneys provide general counsel, fund formation and investor representation services to hundreds of the world’s leading venture capital and private equity firms. We routinely earn the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst’s ranking as the most active law firm in the world in venture capital financing activity.We combine our deep market knowledge and strong industry relationships with a unique practice experience to provide practical, business-oriented counsel designed for the needs of the emerging-growth company marketplace.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Gunderson Dettmer invests in
Stages Gunderson Dettmer invests in
Countries Gunderson Dettmer invests in
Contacts
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Sharon J. Hendricks
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Brian C. Patterson
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Brooks Stough
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Colin D. Chapman
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Darrin S. Brown
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 4 (24%)
- Internet 3 (18%)
- Software 3 (18%)
- Information Technology 3 (18%)
- Mobile 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (59%)
- Series A 3 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (12%)
- Series B 2 (12%)
Country
- United States 15 (88%)
- Chile 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Sharon J. Hendricks
Partner, Silicon Valley
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Partner, Silicon Valley | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Brian C. Patterson
Partner, Business Attorney
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Partner, Business Attorney | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Brooks Stough
Partner, Silicon Valley
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Partner, Silicon Valley | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Colin D. Chapman
Partner, Silicon Valley
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Partner, Silicon Valley | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Darrin S. Brown
Fund Formation/Tax Partner
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Fund Formation/Tax Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Fundamental Research Labs
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Altera build digital human beings that live, love and grow. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | |
Xepelin
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Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile. | $111M / Series B / May 02, 2022 | |
DataGrail
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DataGrail is a data privacy startup that helps businesses navigate the growing array of privacy regulations. It constitutes part of a growing roster of platforms that are capitalizing on privacy regulations, such as GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California, by making it easier for companies to manage, automate, and grow their privacy programs. | $30M / Series B / Mar 10, 2021 | |
Zuper
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Zuper is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of software, SaaS, field service, and HVAC. Zuper is a productivity suite for service businesses to mobile field workforce and automate all business operations. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $1.1M / Seed / Sep 17, 2020 | |
HASH
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HASH enables the real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems. HASH's open-core platform allows developers and data scientists to quickly and easily construct simulations through composable parts, via a browser-based IDE and viewer for simulations. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York City. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 18, 2020 | |
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DataGrail
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DataGrail is a data privacy startup that helps businesses navigate the growing array of privacy regulations. It constitutes part of a growing roster of platforms that are capitalizing on privacy regulations, such as GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California, by making it easier for companies to manage, automate, and grow their privacy programs. | $4M / Seed / Sep 20, 2018 | |
Openwater
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Openwater is developing a new generation of imaging technologies, with high resolution and low costs, enabling medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications | Seed / Mar 01, 2018 | |
Electric
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Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices. It provides real-time issue resolution, security at the device, app, and network levels, employee onboarding/offboarding, and IT management. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $2M / Seed / Nov 17, 2016 | |
Koji
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Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Oct 31, 2016 | |
Good Uncle
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Good Uncle offers an application that enables college students to find and order food. Good Uncle offers delivery services to its customers’ college. It prepares food according to recipes collected from restaurants. Good Uncle was founded by Matt Doumar and Wiley Cerilli in November 2015. | $2.2M / Seed / Feb 09, 2016 | |
| See all 17 investments → | |||
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What does Gunderson Dettmer invest in?
Gunderson Dettmer invests primarily in SaaS, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Gunderson Dettmer?
The team at Gunderson Dettmer includes Sharon J. Hendricks (Partner, Silicon Valley), Brian C. Patterson (Partner, Business Attorney) and Brooks Stough (Partner, Silicon Valley), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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