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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / DE Novo Ventures, LLC
DE Novo Ventures, LLC
venture manager, reported GAV $39.1M across 1 vehicles
Importance
14
low
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
44
elevated
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
4
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Burlingame, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 1350 BAYSHORE HIGHWAY, SUITE 920, Burlingame, CA, 94010adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 650-329-1999adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://WWW.DENOVOVC.COM
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Feb 15, 2019
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $39.1Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 650-329-1999adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
no observed deals yet
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors: no observed deals yet
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 0
Funds and vehicles
1 reported, 3 no longer reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Novo Ventures III, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $39.1M Feb 15, 2019 | 58 | unknown | unknown |
| DE Novo Ventures II, LP | Fund | unknown | Wound down | $62.2M Mar 29, 2016 | 74 | unknown | unknown |
| DE Novo (q) Ventutres I, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Wound down | $86,837 Feb 26, 2013 | 75 | unknown | unknown |
| DE Novo Ventures I, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Wound down | $19,207 Feb 26, 2013 | 50 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
4 current, 1 departed
Frank Thomas Watkins
PartnerMember · since Jul 1, 2003
Frederick J Dotzler
PartnerMember · since Jul 1, 2003
Joseph Mandato
PartnerMember · since Jul 1, 2003
Richard Ferrari
PartnerMember · since Jul 1, 2003
1 departed (kept with end dates)
- David Mauney · Member · Jul 1, 2003 to Mar 9, 2017 Inference
Investments on record
0 edges, 0 companies, 0 partner-attributed
No investment on record yet. Edges arrive from the firm’s portfolio page, financing announcements, and Form D board seats.
Co-investors
0 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
No co-investor relationship yet: these are derived only from rounds and portfolio listings the graph has seen both investors on.
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
9 dated events
- Mar 9, 2017DE Novo Ventures II, LP no longer reported on Form ADV by DE Novo Ventures, LLCFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceDE Novo Ventures II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 9, 2017David Mauney (Member) no longer on Schedule A of DE Novo Ventures, LLC
- Mar 12, 2014DE Novo Ventures I, L.P. no longer reported on Form ADV by DE Novo Ventures, LLCFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceDE Novo Ventures I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 12, 2014DE Novo (q) Ventutres I, L.P. no longer reported on Form ADV by DE Novo Ventures, LLCFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceDE Novo (q) Ventutres I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 26, 2012DE Novo Ventures, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 26, 2012DE Novo Ventures III, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by DE Novo Ventures, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $161,972,170Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactDE Novo Ventures III, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 26, 2012DE Novo Ventures I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by DE Novo Ventures, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $1,771,061Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactDE Novo Ventures I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 26, 2012DE Novo (q) Ventutres I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by DE Novo Ventures, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $9,032,409Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactDE Novo (q) Ventutres I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 26, 2012DE Novo Ventures II, LP first reported on Form ADV by DE Novo Ventures, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $129,546,085Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactDE Novo Ventures II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $39.1M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
25 observations from 2 sources