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Oracle

Founders Bob Miner Brian Cassidy Ed Oates Larry Ellison

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$48M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 1.17
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 22
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
  • Cloud Data Services
Summary

In 1977 was created Oracle, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Redwood Shores.

The fund was created by Bob Miner, Ed Oates, Larry Ellison, Mark Trefgarne, Seth Van Sickel. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Oracle, startups are often financed by Worldview Technology Partners, Sigma Partners, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hikari Tsushin Group, Accel, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accel, Sigma Partners, ONSET Ventures.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Oracle works on 20 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Oracle the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline WebEx, 3PAR, Proteus Digital Health The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Biotechnology.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cohere

Natural Language Processing
Software
$270M02 May 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ChestAi

03 Feb 2023 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Orglance

Freelance
$30K28 Nov 2022 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Sphinx Logic®

Market Research
Software
$1M05 Feb 2011 Johnson City, Tennessee, United States

YaData

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Analytics
$300K01 Apr 2006 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Pharmaca

Health Care
Medical
$5M10 Mar 2003 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Industrial
SaaS
Software
$13M20 Jan 2003 California, United States

Enterprise Software
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$17M02 Apr 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Advertising
Consulting
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$50M30 Nov 2000 Concord, California, United States

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Total investments 55
Average round size 48M
Rounds per year 1.17
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 22
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cohere

Natural Language Processing
Software
$270M02 May 2023 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ChestAi

03 Feb 2023 New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Orglance

Freelance
$30K28 Nov 2022 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Sphinx Logic®

Market Research
Software
$1M05 Feb 2011 Johnson City, Tennessee, United States

YaData

Ad Targeting
Advertising
Analytics
$300K01 Apr 2006 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Pharmaca

Health Care
Medical
$5M10 Mar 2003 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Industrial
SaaS
Software
$13M20 Jan 2003 California, United States

Enterprise Software
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
$17M02 Apr 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Advertising
Consulting
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$50M30 Nov 2000 Concord, California, United States
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