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3Com

Founders Howard Charney Robert Metcalfe

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$20M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.21
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 7
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Wireless
  • Network Hardware
Summary

3Com appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1979. The main department of described VC is located in the Santa Clara. The venture was found in North America in United States. 3Com seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This 3Com works on 49 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by Howard Charney, Robert Metcalfe.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the 3Com, startups are often financed by TechHarvest Group, Sigma Partners, The Halo Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are WiLAN, Thomas Weisel Partners, TechHarvest Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Innovacom, Benchmark, Accel.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile Devices, Network Hardware. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline PatientKeeper, Zayante, Amplify.net 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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AirPrime

Semiconductor
Telecommunications
Wireless
$40M11 Sep 2001 Virginia, United States

Atrica

Network Hardware
Telecommunications
$16M18 Sep 2000 Santa Clara, California, United States

PatientKeeper

Electronics
Health Care
Medical
mHealth
$43M08 Aug 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Atrica

Network Hardware
Telecommunications
$4M05 Feb 2000 Santa Clara, California, United States

No Wires Needed

Wireless
$5M20 Jan 2000 Utrecht

Amplify.net

Hardware
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$6M08 Dec 1999 Fremont, California, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 20M
Rounds per year 0.21
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AirPrime

Semiconductor
Telecommunications
Wireless
$40M11 Sep 2001 Virginia, United States

Atrica

Network Hardware
Telecommunications
$16M18 Sep 2000 Santa Clara, California, United States

PatientKeeper

Electronics
Health Care
Medical
mHealth
$43M08 Aug 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Atrica

Network Hardware
Telecommunications
$4M05 Feb 2000 Santa Clara, California, United States

No Wires Needed

Wireless
$5M20 Jan 2000 Utrecht

Amplify.net

Hardware
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$6M08 Dec 1999 Fremont, California, United States
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