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BCE Inc (Bell Canada Enterprises)

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$51M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.02
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Key employees 8

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Mobile Apps
  • Software
  • Video
  • Communications Infrastructure
Summary

BCE Inc (Bell Canada Enterprises) appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1880. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Toronto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Canada.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the BCE Inc (Bell Canada Enterprises), startups are often financed by Polaris Partners, General Catalyst, Morgenthaler Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Polaris Partners, General Catalyst, Fairhaven Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polaris Partners, Intel Capital, General Catalyst.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2004. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2008. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this BCE Inc (Bell Canada Enterprises) performs on 71 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The overall number of key employees were 8.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Internet. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Clearwire, BridgePort Networks, BridgePort Networks

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BridgePort Networks

Mobile Apps
Software
Telecommunications
$25M27 Sep 2004 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Catena Networks

Communications Infrastructure
Telecommunications
Video
$30M18 Jan 2000 Redwood City, California, United States

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Total investments 3
Average round size 51M
Rounds per year 0.02
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BridgePort Networks

Mobile Apps
Software
Telecommunications
$25M27 Sep 2004 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Catena Networks

Communications Infrastructure
Telecommunications
Video
$30M18 Jan 2000 Redwood City, California, United States
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