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ClearLight Partners

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 1.05
Lead investments 0
Exits 17
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Health Care
  • Security
  • Software
  • Fashion
Summary

In 2000 was created ClearLight Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Newport Beach. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Counterpane Internet Security, Communispace, Richardson Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Skill Assessment, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of more than 20 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this ClearLight Partners performs on 38 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. 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.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the ClearLight Partners, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Advanced Technology Ventures, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Women's Growth Capital Fund, Visa International Service Association, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Comcast Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Visa International Service Association.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tripwire

Cyber Security
Security
Software
$9M19 Mar 2002 Portland, Oregon, United States

Counterpane Internet Security

Enterprise Software
Risk Management
Security
Software
$24M28 Nov 2000 Mountain View, California, United States

Communispace

Communities
$9M26 Jul 2000 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 23
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.05
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 0
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.22

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tripwire

Cyber Security
Security
Software
$9M19 Mar 2002 Portland, Oregon, United States

Counterpane Internet Security

Enterprise Software
Risk Management
Security
Software
$24M28 Nov 2000 Mountain View, California, United States

Communispace

Communities
$9M26 Jul 2000 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
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