Akamai Technologies
Corporate investor
Active
Cambridge, United States
22
13M
22
0.88
2
8
- Areas of investment
Summary
Akamai Technologies is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1998. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Cambridge.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Akamai Technologies, startups are often financed by Microsoft ScaleUp Tel Aviv, YL Ventures, Weston Presidio Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iVentures Asia Ltd, YL Ventures, Thomson multimedia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iVentures Asia Ltd, Polaris Partners, Pear Tree Partners.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Cyber Security. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ClearSky Data, Saguna, SOHA SYSTEMS Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.
The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2000. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Opposing the other organizations, this Akamai Technologies works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The fund was created by Jonathan Seelig, Kent Roberts, Randall Kaplan, Tom Leighton.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 22
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 8
- Rounds per year
- 0.88
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (7)
- Internet (5)
- Cloud Computing (4)
- Security (3)
- Software (3) Show 40 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (15)
- Israel (4)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Canada (1)
- Japan (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2000
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 24M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.24
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hermetic Security | 01 Nov 2015 | Financial Services, Mobile, Security | Seed | 800K | Israel, North District |
| Valence Security | 26 Oct 2022 | Network Security, Security | Early Stage Venture | 25M | Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel |
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