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Wasserstein & Co.

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 0.74
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 16
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Semiconductor
  • Telecommunications
  • Electronics
  • Electrical Distribution
Summary

Wasserstein & Co. is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Wasserstein & Co., startups are often financed by Morgenthaler Ventures, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Newlight Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Newlight Management, Needham Capital Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Newlight Management, Bay Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. This Wasserstein & Co. works on 31 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2002. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chip Express, eMotion, INFICON. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Semiconductor, Hardware. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ChipX

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$4M22 Jul 2008 San Jose, California, United States

pSemi

Electrical Distribution
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$17M02 Nov 2004 San Diego, California, United States

pSemi

Electrical Distribution
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$23M10 Feb 2003 San Diego, California, United States

eMotion

Content
Digital Media
Marketing
$2M29 Oct 2002 San Francisco, California, United States

pSemi

Electrical Distribution
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$14M22 Aug 2002 San Diego, California, United States

Cognigine

Electronics
Internet
Manufacturing
Network Security
Optical Communication
Semiconductor
Telecommunications
$8M13 Aug 2001 Fremont, California, United States

PetaSwitch

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$4M19 Jun 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Blaze Network Products

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$40M13 Nov 2000 California, United States

Blaze Network Products

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$10M19 Oct 1999 California, United States

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Total investments 26
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 0.74
Peak activity year 2002
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ChipX

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$4M22 Jul 2008 San Jose, California, United States

pSemi

Electrical Distribution
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$17M02 Nov 2004 San Diego, California, United States

pSemi

Electrical Distribution
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$23M10 Feb 2003 San Diego, California, United States

eMotion

Content
Digital Media
Marketing
$2M29 Oct 2002 San Francisco, California, United States

pSemi

Electrical Distribution
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$14M22 Aug 2002 San Diego, California, United States

Cognigine

Electronics
Internet
Manufacturing
Network Security
Optical Communication
Semiconductor
Telecommunications
$8M13 Aug 2001 Fremont, California, United States

PetaSwitch

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$4M19 Jun 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Blaze Network Products

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$40M13 Nov 2000 California, United States

Blaze Network Products

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$10M19 Oct 1999 California, United States
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