Comdisco Ventures

Total investments

75

Average round size

39M

Portfolio companies

67

Rounds per year

1.36

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

41

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMarketingTelecommunicationsNetwork HardwareCommunications Infrastructure

Summary

Comdisco Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1969. The main department of described VC is located in the Rosamond. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Network Hardware. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight OpenTable, BroadSoft, Active Network.

When the investment is from Comdisco Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Comdisco Ventures performs on 23 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2003.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Comdisco Ventures, startups are often financed by Austin Ventures, Accel, Canaan Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TCV, Oak Investment Partners, CRV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accel, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Oak Investment Partners.

This organization was formed by Jim Labe.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
75
Lead investments
1
Exits
41
Rounds per year
1.36
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • Internet (19)
  • Telecommunications (10)
  • Communications Infrastructure (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (72)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
72M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.17
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BroadSoft 26 Jun 2000 Software, Enterprise, Telecommunications, VoIP Early Stage Venture 23M United States, Maryland
SirenServ 31 Jul 2000 Content, Developer Tools, Web Browsers Seed 1M United States, Illinois, Chicago
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