Ballistic Ventures III launches $360M venture fund from Menlo Park
Ballistic Ventures III, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, is raising $360M for a venture capital fund under Regulation D exemption 3(c)(7). The fund is in pre-first-close stage with no investors yet and no placement agent named on the filing.
How this compares
- $360M is larger than 99% of the 7,710 venture capital fund launches with a stated size in the last two years; the median is $1.1M.
- Among 1,632 fund launches filed from CA in the same window it is larger than 94%; the CA median is $18.8M.
- Across 451 venture capital sponsors with more than one launch on EDGAR, the median gap between consecutive funds is 3 months.
- This is the sponsor's 2nd fund launch on EDGAR; the previous one, Ballistic Ventures Fund A, LP, was filed 19 months earlier at $100M.
Computed from every Form D fund launch on EDGAR since late 2024, not sampled. Amounts are the stated offering size; indefinite offerings are excluded.
Ballistic Ventures on EDGAR
Earlier and related filings by the same issuer and sponsor. All Ballistic Ventures vehicles →
Ballistic Ventures Fund A, LP updates its Form D — $129.8M sold
Sold rose to $NaN (+$129.8M, +35 investors) in 181 days since the previous filing.
Ballistic Ventures Fund A, LP files a $100M venture capital fund
Registered adviser
confirmed by the filing phoneBALLISTIC VENTURES (BALLISTIC VENTURES ALPHA LLC)
- Registration
- exempt reporting adviser · since 2022-01-21
- Private funds on Form ADV
- Yes
- Office
- Menlo Park, CA
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People on the filing
| Kevin Mandia | Executive Officer |
| Barmak Meftah | Executive Officer |
| Theodore Schlein | Executive Officer |
| Jacob Seid | Executive Officer |
| Roger Thornton | Executive Officer |
| Philip Venables | Executive Officer |
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