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Communications Equity Associates

Founders Rick Michaels

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.18
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 3
Key employees 9

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Outsourcing
  • E-Commerce
  • Sales
  • Software
Summary

Communications Equity Associates is the famous VC, which was founded in 1973. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tampa. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Rick Michaels. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Communications Equity Associates, startups are often financed by Morgenthaler Ventures, Wasserstein & Co., InterWest Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TL Ventures, InterWest Partners, Wasserstein & Co.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TL Ventures, InterWest Partners, Wasserstein & Co..

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MediaBrains, Tachyon Networks, Participate Systems. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Recruiting, Ad Network. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2005. Opposing the other organizations, this Communications Equity Associates works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tachyon Networks

Aerospace
Hardware
$7M02 Jun 2005 San Diego, 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

Participate Systems

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Outsourcing
Sales
Software
$20M04 Apr 2000 Chicago, Illinois, United States

MediaBrains

Ad Network
Advertising
Internet
Media and Entertainment
$13M21 Mar 2000 Florida, United States

Participate Systems

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Outsourcing
Sales
Software
$13M21 Sep 1999 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.18
Peak activity year 1999
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tachyon Networks

Aerospace
Hardware
$7M02 Jun 2005 San Diego, 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

Participate Systems

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Outsourcing
Sales
Software
$20M04 Apr 2000 Chicago, Illinois, United States

MediaBrains

Ad Network
Advertising
Internet
Media and Entertainment
$13M21 Mar 2000 Florida, United States

Participate Systems

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Outsourcing
Sales
Software
$13M21 Sep 1999 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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