Bessemer Trust

Total investments

5

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.04

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

2

Areas of investment
E-CommerceFinancial ServicesMobileAppsMarketingTelecommunicationsService IndustryVirtualizationCustomer ServiceData Storage

Summary

Bessemer Trust appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1907. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Marketing. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight StorageApps, MeetChina.com.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2001. Comparing to the other companies, this Bessemer Trust performs on 21 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Bessemer Trust, startups are often financed by SBCVC, Dell Technologies Capital, Citi Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Thomas Vickers Investment Group, Syntaxis Capital, StorageNetworks.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.04
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Apps (2)
  • Virtualization (2)
  • Data Storage (2)
  • Service Industry (1)
  • Mobile (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
  • China (1)
  • Poland (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
30
Avg. valuation at time of investment
161M
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
8.59
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
MeetChina.com 03 Aug 2000 E-Commerce, Marketing, Customer Service Late Stage Venture 30M Guangdong Province, Futian District, China
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