Columbia Capital

Alexandria, United States
Venture Capital
Active
Total investments

202

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

107

Rounds per year

5.77

Lead investments

37

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

53

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InfrastructureInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareElectronicsTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

In 1989 was created Columbia Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Alexandria.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Columbia Capital, startups are often financed by Battery Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Shelter Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Telcom Ventures, RRE Ventures, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RRE Ventures, GGV Capital, Intel Capital.

We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 Zayo, Riverbed Technology, BroadSoft. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Computer, Mobile.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Columbia Capital performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Columbia Capital is 50-100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureMobility

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
202
Lead investments
37
Exits
53
Rounds per year
5.77
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (74)
  • Telecommunications (54)
  • Enterprise Software (42)
  • Information Technology (42)
  • Mobile (37)
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Investments by region
  • United States (184)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Germany (2)
  • Brazil (1)
  • Australia (1)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
118M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.30
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Eqxiu.com01 Nov 2015Marketing, Management Consulting, Web DevelopmentEarly Stage Venture0China, Beijing, Dongcheng District
Intersect Software27 Jun 2001Software, Developer Platform, Product DesignEarly Stage Venture18MUnited States, Texas, Austin
V2 Digital09 May 2024Early Stage Venture21MNew South Wales, Surry Hills, Australia

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