Ciena

Summary

In 1992 was created Ciena, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Linthicum Heights. The company was established in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Jeffrey Weiss.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Network Hardware, Laser. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Luminous Networks, Wavesmith Networks, Equipe Communications For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Ciena, startups are often financed by Worldview Technology Partners, Vanguard Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Worldview Technology Partners, Vanguard Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Worldview Technology Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Next47.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2006. This Ciena works on 51 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2002.