Adobe

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

San Jose, United States

Total investments

29

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

0.71

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

8

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareContentMarketingAdvertisingDigital Media

Summary

In 1982 was created Adobe Systems, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the San Jose. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Charles Geschke.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Demandbase, Livefyre, Sendmail. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Content, SaaS.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Adobe Systems works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Adobe Systems, startups are often financed by Altos Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, ff Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Altos Ventures, Sigma Partners, Scale Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Altos Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Costanoa Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Media/ContentProductivity
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
29
Lead investments
6
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.71
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Enterprise Software (8)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Advertising (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Analytics (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
  • China (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
17M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.91

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Demandbase 12 May 2011 Analytics, SaaS, Marketing, Advertising Late Stage Venture 10M United States, California, San Francisco
DigitalThink 09 Nov 1996 Enterprise Software, Electronics, Digital Media Seed 1M United States, California, San Francisco
Tropic Biosciences 01 Mar 2017 Biotechnology, Agriculture Seed England, London, United Kingdom
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