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Brocade Communications Systems

Founders Kumar Malavalli

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.19
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 3
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Optical Communication
  • Communications Infrastructure
  • Telecommunications
  • Internet
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Brocade Communications Systems is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1995. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the San Jose. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2007. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Brocade Communications Systems works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Network Hardware. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Optical networking, Zettaset, Inc., InMage Systems. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Brocade Communications Systems, startups are often financed by Silicon Alley Seed Investors, RRE Ventures, JP Morgan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SAS Investors, RRE Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kumar Malavalli, Intel Capital, HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

This organization was formed by Kumar Malavalli.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zettaset, Inc.

Big Data
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Software
$10M01 Nov 2012 California, United States

InMage Systems

Enterprise Software
Security
Software
$10M10 Jul 2007 San Jose, California, United States

Tacit Networks

Network Hardware
Service Industry
Web Hosting
$12M05 May 2005 New Jersey, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 0.19
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zettaset, Inc.

Big Data
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Software
$10M01 Nov 2012 California, United States

InMage Systems

Enterprise Software
Security
Software
$10M10 Jul 2007 San Jose, California, United States

Tacit Networks

Network Hardware
Service Industry
Web Hosting
$12M05 May 2005 New Jersey, United States
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