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Berkshire Partners

Founders Carl Ferenbach Richard Lubin

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$62M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 0.70
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 11
Key employees 30

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Internet
  • Wireless
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
Summary

Berkshire Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1980. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston. The venture was found in North America in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Oil and Gas, Marketing. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kendra Scott Jewelry, Fusient Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada.

This Berkshire Partners works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Berkshire Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

This organization was formed by Carl Ferenbach, Richard Lubin. Besides them, we counted 30 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Berkshire Partners, startups are often financed by Centennial Ventures, Telecom Partners, Summit Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Centennial Ventures, WaterView Partners, Trimaran Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Centennial Ventures, Nassau Capital, Fay, Richwhite & Cie.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vapor IO

Big Data
Cloud Management
Data Center
Data Center Automation
Hardware
Software
$90M22 Jan 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Vapor IO

Big Data
Cloud Management
Data Center
Data Center Automation
Hardware
Software
05 Sep 2018 Austin, Texas, United States

CityNet Telecommunications

Infrastructure
Internet
Telecommunications
$175M10 Apr 2001 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Fusient

Business Development
Data Visualization
Real Time
$30M18 Jan 2000 Ontario

Crown Castle

Internet
Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$74M14 Feb 1997 Houston, Texas, United States

Crown Castle

Internet
Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M15 Jul 1996 Houston, Texas, United States

Internet
Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$4M11 Jan 1995 Houston, Texas, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 62M
Rounds per year 0.70
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.52

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vapor IO

Big Data
Cloud Management
Data Center
Data Center Automation
Hardware
Software
$90M22 Jan 2020 Austin, Texas, United States

Vapor IO

Big Data
Cloud Management
Data Center
Data Center Automation
Hardware
Software
05 Sep 2018 Austin, Texas, United States

CityNet Telecommunications

Infrastructure
Internet
Telecommunications
$175M10 Apr 2001 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Fusient

Business Development
Data Visualization
Real Time
$30M18 Jan 2000 Ontario

Crown Castle

Internet
Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$74M14 Feb 1997 Houston, Texas, United States

Crown Castle

Internet
Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M15 Jul 1996 Houston, Texas, United States

Internet
Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$4M11 Jan 1995 Houston, Texas, United States
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