When was Gabriel Venture Partners founded?

Gabriel Venture Partners was founded in 1999.

Where is Gabriel Venture Partners' headquarters located?

Gabriel Venture Partners' headquarters is located in San Mateo ( United States ).

How many companies has Gabriel Venture Partners invested in?

Gabriel Venture Partners has invested in 38 companies, including MakeMyTrip & Tejas Networks.

Which companies has Gabriel Venture Partners invested in lately?

Carcinotech & SkyCross are the latest investments by Gabriel Venture Partners.

What sectors does Gabriel Venture Partners focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Gabriel Venture Partners' portfolio are Food and Agriculture Tech (3 investments) and Environment Tech (4 investments).

What stages of companies does Gabriel Venture Partners typically invest in?

Gabriel Venture Partners primarily invests in Series A and Series B stages.

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Q: How big is Gabriel Venture Partners' investment team?

Gabriel Venture Partners has a team of 3.

Q: How many exits has Gabriel Venture Partners been involved in?

Gabriel Venture Partners' portfolio has seen 6 IPOs and 16 acquisitions.

Gabriel Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. It is primarily based out of San Mateo, United States. As of Apr 2022, Gabriel Venture Partners has invested in 38 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Food and Agriculture Tech to Environment Tech and High Tech. Most recently it led the $11M Series E round of SkyCross along with Investor Growth Capital. This round also saw participation from Intel Capital and other investors.

Overall, Gabriel Venture Partners portfolio has seen 6 IPOs and 16 acquisitions including key companies like MakeMyTrip, Tejas Networks and Chegg. A lot of funds co-invest with Gabriel Venture Partners, with names like InterWest Partners sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.

Gabriel Venture Partners has team of 3 people including 2 partners.

Key Metrics

Team Members

Phil Samper, David Lilly & 1 more

Portfolio Count

MakeMyTrip, Tejas Networks & 36 more

Portfolio Sectors

Food and Agriculture Tech, Environment Tech & 22 more

Portfolio Locations

United States, India & 1 more

Rounds of Entry

Series A, Series B & 4 more

Portfolio IPOs

Exodus, Chegg & 4 more

Portfolio Acquisitions

Careerminds, Tejas Networks & 14 more

Portfolio Soonicorns

Kajeet Education Broadband

Gabriel Venture Partners has a portfolio of 38 companies. Their most notable investments are in Persistent and SkyCross.Their portfolio spans across United States, India and United Kingdom. They have invested in Food and Agriculture Tech, Environment Tech, High Tech and 21 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B and 4 more. Here is the list of top investments by Gabriel Venture Partners:

1. MakeMyTrip

Online agency for booking multiple categories of travel services. The platform enables users to book trains, flights, hotels, holiday packages, bus tickets, taxi cabs, rental cars, tours, charter flights, and activities. Users can book travel services by providing detailed information including destination, number of travelers, preferred dates, payment details, and more. It also allows users to book home stay and villas.

Key facts about MakeMyTrip

Founded Year: 2000
Location: Gurugram (India)
Annual Revenue: ₹5,490Cr as on Mar 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $39M
Employee Count: 4,579 as on Mar 31, 2024
Investors: Gabriel Venture Partners, Naspers and 11 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, May 04, 2017, $330M
Highlight: Public

2. Tejas Networks

Provider of telecom and broadband network solutions. It offers ethernet products, carriers, switching equipment, generation optical transport equipment, ethernet cards, multi-service provisioning platforms, bandwidth provisioning equipment, and more. It also offers various services, including network planning, design, and optimization, network installation, commissioning, testing, and program management, customer support and post-sales activities, training, and system integration.

Key facts about Tejas Networks

Founded Year: 2000
Location: Bengaluru (India)
Annual Revenue: ₹2,470Cr as on Mar 31, 2024
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $35M
Employee Count: 2,355 as on Jan 31, 2025
Investors: Gabriel Venture Partners, IIML and 7 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series D, Sep 07, 2016
Highlight: Acquired

3. Chegg

Provider of rental books and homework help solutions for university students. It is an online textbook rental company where students can rent, buy, and sell textbooks from its platform. It enables finding out textbooks based on authors, price, and subject categories. It also helps students find colleges, internships, and scholarships. Its offerings include various subjects like Math, English, Engineering, and more.

Key facts about Chegg

Founded Year: 2005
Location: Santa Clara (United States)
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $206M
Employee Count: 771 as on Dec 31, 2023
Investors: Bank of America, First Analysis and 38 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Aug 18, 2020, $900M
Highlight: Public

4. Persistent

Provider of application development, data analytics, and digital transformation services. Its other portfolio includes software product engineering, CX transformation, cloud & infrastructure management, IT consulting & security, and ERP services. It serves a wide range of industries including Healthcare and Life Sciences, Banking and Finance, Telecommunications, High Technology and Emerging Industries, Software & Hi-tech, and consumer Tech.

Key facts about Persistent

Founded Year: 1990
Location: Pune (India)
Annual Revenue: ₹9,950Cr as on Mar 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $18.8M
Employee Count: 19,974 as on Nov 30, 2024
Investors: Apax, Gabriel Venture Partners and 6 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series B, Dec 16, 2005, $18.8M
Highlight: Public

5. Concord

Concord Music is a music publishing and record company. It was formed after merging of Concord Music Group and The Bicycle Music Company. It has made a number of acquisitions and strategic investments in other music publishing and record companies including Vanguard Records, Sugar Hill Records, Fearless Records, Razor & Tie (including Kidz Bop) and Imagem Music Group.

Key facts about Concord

Founded Year: 1973
Location: Beverly Hills (United States)
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $91.2M
Employee Count: 425 as on Dec 31, 2021
Investors: First Analysis, J P Morgan and 9 Others
Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Aug 18, 2020, $600M
Highlight: Acquired

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Gabriel Venture Partners has invested in 38 companies over the last 26 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Carcinotech and most recent follow-on round was in Aurora Algae.

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Gabriel Venture Partners has made 12 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $4.06M, 10 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $23.4M and 2 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.05M.

Here are Gabriel Venture Partners' investments by stage:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Series A	12
Series B	10
Seed	2
Series C	2
Series D	1
Others	1

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Gabriel Venture Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure, Telecom, Enterprise Applications and Environment Tech. Notably, it has invested in 26 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 24 Tech companies, 9 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 7 companies focusing on Software.

Here are Gabriel Venture Partners' investments by sector:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Sector	No. of Investments
High Tech	6
Enterprise Infrastructure	5
Telecom	5
Enterprise Applications	4
Environment Tech	4
Others	30

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Gabriel Venture Partners has made most investments in United States (24), followed by India where it has made 2 investments.

Here are Gabriel Venture Partners' investments by geography:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Country	No. of Investments
United States	24
India	2
United Kingdom	2

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Gabriel Venture Partners has not made any investment in 2025 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by Gabriel Venture Partners:

Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Apr 25, 2022	Carcinotech	United Kingdom	Seed	$2.05M	Tricapital [+5]
May 16, 2011	SkyCross	United States	Series E	$11M	Docomo Capital [+3]
May 04, 2011	Careerminds	United States	Series A	$1.28M	Innovation Capital [+3]
Mar 17, 2010	Aurora Algae	United States	Series C	$15M	Oak Investment Partners [+1]
Jan 12, 2010	IForem	United States	Series A	$2M	-

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6 of Gabriel Venture Partners' portfolio companies have become public. Exodus got listed on the American Stock Exchange (NYSEAMERICAN), in Sep 2021 and Chegg got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at marketcap of $1.02B.

Here are Gabriel Venture Partners' portfolio companies that went public:

Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Exodus	Sep 16, 2021	-	-	-
Chegg	Nov 14, 2013	Jan 18, 2007	Series A	$2.28M
MakeMyTrip	Aug 12, 2010	-	-	-
Persistent	Apr 06, 2010	Dec 16, 2005	Series B	$18.8M
Provogue	Jul 07, 2005	-	-	-

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16 companies from Gabriel Venture Partners' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Careerminds in Mar 2022 by Talent.

Here are Gabriel Venture Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Careerminds	Mar 18, 2022	May 04, 2011	Series A	$1.28M
Tejas Networks	Jul 29, 2021	Jan 06, 2005	Series C	$15M
Allsec Technologies	Apr 17, 2019	-	-	-
SkyCross	Jan 06, 2016	May 16, 2011	Series E	$11M
Concord	Mar 25, 2013	-	-	-

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Gabriel Venture Partners has a team of 3 members including 2 Partners located in United States. Gabriel Venture Partners' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of all team members in Gabriel Venture Partners:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Phil Samper	Partner	Annapolis	-	-
David Lilly	Partner	-	-	-
Phil Garfinkle	Advisor	Washington, DC	-	-

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Over the past 26 years, 107 investors have co-invested in Gabriel Venture Partners's portfolio companies.

Invested before Gabriel Venture Partners: TL Ventures, Investor Growth Capital and 20 others have invested in rounds before Gabriel Venture Partners. There are 1 company where TL Ventures has invested before Gabriel Venture Partners and 1 company where Investor Growth Capital has invested before Gabriel Venture Partners.
Top Co-investors of Gabriel Venture Partners: 46 investors entered a company along with Gabriel Venture Partners. These include investors like InterWest Partners (3 companies).
Invested after Gabriel Venture Partners: A total of 39 investors have invested in Gabriel Venture Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Samena Capital (1 company), Sands Capital (1 company) and Pinnacle Ventures (1 company).