Communications Equity Associates
9
12M
5
0.18
0.44
3
- Areas of investment
Summary
Communications Equity Associates is the famous VC, which was founded in 1973. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tampa. The company was established in North America in United States.
The current fund was established by Rick Michaels. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Communications Equity Associates, startups are often financed by Morgenthaler Ventures, Wasserstein & Co., InterWest Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TL Ventures, InterWest Partners, Wasserstein & Co.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TL Ventures, InterWest Partners, Wasserstein & Co..
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MediaBrains, Tachyon Networks, Participate Systems. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Recruiting, Ad Network. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2005. Opposing the other organizations, this Communications Equity Associates works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 9
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.18
- Follow on index
- 0.44
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (4)
- Outsourcing (3)
- E-Commerce (3)
- Sales (3)
- Software (3) Show 12 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (8)
- Australia (1)
- Peak activity year
- 1999
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 26
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 94M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 16
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.58
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tachyon Networks | 02 Jun 2005 | Aerospace, Hardware | Late Stage Venture | 7M | United States, California, San Diego |
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