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Compaq

Founders Gary Stimac Rod Canion

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$30M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 0.61
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.04
Exits 13
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
Summary

Compaq appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1982. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Content. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Octane Software, Ancestry, FaceTime Communications, Inc. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Compaq, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, William Sahlman, Wasatch Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Amerindo Investment Advisors, AOL. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Walden Venture Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners, Intel Capital.

The fund was created by Gary Stimac, Rod Canion.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Compaq performs on 21 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SteelEye Technology

Business Information Systems
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$20M16 Jul 2001 Palo Alto, California, United States

Surebridge

Apps
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Outsourcing
Software
$15M29 May 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Tantau Software

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Software
$40M14 Jun 2000 Austin, Texas, United States

Nupremis

Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$33M08 Jun 2000 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Snapfish

Internet
Photo Sharing
Photography
$36M01 May 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

MyFamily

Content
Events
Photography
$30M29 Mar 2000 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Ancestry

Family
Internet
Subscription Service
$33M01 Sep 1999 Lehi, Utah, United States

MyFamily

Content
Events
Photography
$33M30 Aug 1999 Bellevue, Washington, United States

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Total investments 25
Average round size 30M
Rounds per year 0.61
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.04
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SteelEye Technology

Business Information Systems
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$20M16 Jul 2001 Palo Alto, California, United States

Surebridge

Apps
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Outsourcing
Software
$15M29 May 2001 Massachusetts, United States

Tantau Software

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Software
$40M14 Jun 2000 Austin, Texas, United States

Nupremis

Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$33M08 Jun 2000 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Snapfish

Internet
Photo Sharing
Photography
$36M01 May 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

MyFamily

Content
Events
Photography
$30M29 Mar 2000 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Ancestry

Family
Internet
Subscription Service
$33M01 Sep 1999 Lehi, Utah, United States

MyFamily

Content
Events
Photography
$33M30 Aug 1999 Bellevue, Washington, United States
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