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Hook Partners

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 14
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 7
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Software
  • Optical Communication
  • Internet
  • Wireless
Summary

The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Dallas. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This Hook Partners works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2006. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2000.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Hook Partners, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Oak Investment Partners, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, Mayfield Fund, VantagePoint Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Oak Investment Partners, GGV Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sylantro, White Rock Networks, Oralis. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Marketing, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Qpass

Media and Entertainment
Software
Telecommunications
$12M30 Dec 2002 Missouri, United States

White Rock Networks

Internet
Web Hosting
Wireless
$60M02 Jan 2002 Richardson, Texas, United States

SteelEye Technology

Business Information Systems
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$20M16 Jul 2001 Palo Alto, California, United States

Xtera

Data Center
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$110M29 Jan 2001 Texas, United States

Leopard Logic

Communications Infrastructure
Electronics
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Semiconductor
$3M01 Jan 2001 Cupertino, California, United States

Angara Database Systems

Internet
Marketing
$20M03 Nov 2000 Mountain View, California, United States

Sylantro

SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$55M01 Oct 2000 California, United States

OptiMight Communications

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$37M01 Jun 2000 San Jose, California, United States

bTrade.com

Communities
Infrastructure
Software
$11M01 May 2000 Glendale, California, United States

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Total investments 19
Average round size 25M
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Qpass

Media and Entertainment
Software
Telecommunications
$12M30 Dec 2002 Missouri, United States

White Rock Networks

Internet
Web Hosting
Wireless
$60M02 Jan 2002 Richardson, Texas, United States

SteelEye Technology

Business Information Systems
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$20M16 Jul 2001 Palo Alto, California, United States

Xtera

Data Center
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$110M29 Jan 2001 Texas, United States

Leopard Logic

Communications Infrastructure
Electronics
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Semiconductor
$3M01 Jan 2001 Cupertino, California, United States

Angara Database Systems

Internet
Marketing
$20M03 Nov 2000 Mountain View, California, United States

Sylantro

SaaS
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$55M01 Oct 2000 California, United States

OptiMight Communications

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$37M01 Jun 2000 San Jose, California, United States

bTrade.com

Communities
Infrastructure
Software
$11M01 May 2000 Glendale, California, United States
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