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Alta Communications

Founders Tim Dibble

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$32M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 0.88
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 8
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Software
  • Communications Infrastructure
Summary

Alta Communications appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston.

The current fund was established by Tim Dibble. The overall number of key employees were 10.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Alta Communications, startups are often financed by Foundry Group, Prime New Ventures, Oak Hill Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BancBoston Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, The Mustang Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trinity Capital Investment, Tribeca Venture Partners, Thirty Five Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Endurance International, Digital Broadband Communications, Telephia. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Digital Media. For fund there is a 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 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The top activity for fund was 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 top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Alta Communications works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Suzy

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Crowdsourcing
Product Research
SaaS
$5M20 Mar 2014 New York, United States

Mr. Youth

Advertising
Digital Media
Social Media
$15M01 Feb 2009 New York, United States

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
$45M03 Apr 2001 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Brandmuscle

Advertising
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
$5M19 Mar 2001 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Information Services
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M02 Aug 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

Arrival Communications

Business Development
Communications Infrastructure
Network Hardware
$12M01 Jun 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
$50M18 Apr 2000 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 22
Average round size 32M
Rounds per year 0.88
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Suzy

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Crowdsourcing
Product Research
SaaS
$5M20 Mar 2014 New York, United States

Mr. Youth

Advertising
Digital Media
Social Media
$15M01 Feb 2009 New York, United States

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
$45M03 Apr 2001 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Brandmuscle

Advertising
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Software
$5M19 Mar 2001 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Information Services
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M02 Aug 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

Arrival Communications

Business Development
Communications Infrastructure
Network Hardware
$12M01 Jun 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
$50M18 Apr 2000 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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