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Alcatel Ventures

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.59
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 8
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Wireless
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Manufacturing
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Alcatel Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Paris. The venture was found in Europe in France. Alcatel Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this Alcatel Ventures performs on 28 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SeatAdvisor, 3DSP, Ondax. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Wireless, Collaboration.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Alcatel Ventures, startups are often financed by Mellon Ventures, Gabriel Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gabriel Venture Partners, Mellon Ventures, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sternhill Partners, Sequoia Capital, Granite Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ondax

Hardware
Manufacturing
29 Jul 2003 El Monte, California, United States

WIDCOMM

Electronics
Software
Wireless
$11M23 Jul 2002 San Diego, California, United States

Navini Networks

Communication Hardware
Network Hardware
Wireless
$51M27 Aug 2001 Richardson, Texas, United States

Ondax

Hardware
Manufacturing
$7M12 Mar 2001 El Monte, California, United States

TransDimension

Embedded Systems
Enterprise Software
Semiconductor
Software
Wireless
$13M08 Mar 2001 Irvine, California, United States

Software
$4M21 Jun 2000 San Diego, California, United States

TransDimension

Embedded Systems
Enterprise Software
Semiconductor
Software
Wireless
$2M01 May 2000 Irvine, California, United States

3DSP

Digital Media
DSP
Intellectual Property
Property Management
$13M18 Apr 2000 Irvine, California, United States

MobileSys

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Wireless
$2M01 Mar 1999 Mountain View, California, United States

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Total investments 13
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 0.59
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ondax

Hardware
Manufacturing
29 Jul 2003 El Monte, California, United States

WIDCOMM

Electronics
Software
Wireless
$11M23 Jul 2002 San Diego, California, United States

Navini Networks

Communication Hardware
Network Hardware
Wireless
$51M27 Aug 2001 Richardson, Texas, United States

Ondax

Hardware
Manufacturing
$7M12 Mar 2001 El Monte, California, United States

TransDimension

Embedded Systems
Enterprise Software
Semiconductor
Software
Wireless
$13M08 Mar 2001 Irvine, California, United States

Software
$4M21 Jun 2000 San Diego, California, United States

TransDimension

Embedded Systems
Enterprise Software
Semiconductor
Software
Wireless
$2M01 May 2000 Irvine, California, United States

3DSP

Digital Media
DSP
Intellectual Property
Property Management
$13M18 Apr 2000 Irvine, California, United States

MobileSys

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Wireless
$2M01 Mar 1999 Mountain View, California, United States
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