3Com

Total investments

9

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

8

Rounds per year

0.21

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMedicalHardwareSemiconductorTelecommunicationsmHealthWirelessNetwork 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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
3
Exits
7
Rounds per year
0.21
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Telecommunications (3)
  • Software (3)
  • Internet (3)
  • Wireless (2)
  • Network Hardware (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (8)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
20M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.20
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Atrica 18 Sep 2000 Telecommunications, Network Hardware Early Stage Venture 16M United States, California, Santa Clara

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