Cadence Design Systems

Total investments

15

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.43

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

5

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsManufacturingProduct DesignComputerSemiconductorElectronicsWireless

Summary

Cadence Design Systems appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1988. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Jose. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Cadence Design Systems, startups are often financed by Needham Capital Partners, Greylock Partners, Gimv. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tallwood Venture Capital, Greylock Partners, Gimv. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tallwood Venture Capital, BlueRun Ventures, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center.

The current fund was established by Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CoWare, NemeriX, NVELO. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Electronics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Cadence Design Systems performs on 7 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2007. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
2
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.43
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Semiconductor (9)
  • Manufacturing (8)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2004

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hier Design 18 Mar 2003 Software, Enterprise Software, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California, Santa Clara
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