BCE Capital

Summary

BCE Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1987. 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 Waltham.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, VoIP. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ellacoya Networks, Vantrix, Simpler Networks. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the BCE Capital, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Flagship Pioneering, Bessemer Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BDC Venture Capital, Summerhill Venture Partners, Safeguard Scientifics. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Summerhill Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Lothian Partners.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2008. Comparing to the other companies, this BCE Capital performs on 35 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2005. The average startup value when the investment from BCE Capital is 50-100 millions dollars.