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Credit Suisse First Boston

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$77M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 1.73
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 17
Key employees 50
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Credit Suisse First Boston is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1996. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Zurich.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the Credit Suisse First Boston, startups are often financed by Novo Holdings, Mayfield Fund, HealthCap. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wheatley Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bay City Capital, Vulcan Capital, New Enterprise Associates.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight RightNow Technologies, Salesforce, TradingEdge. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Optical Communication, Manufacturing. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Credit Suisse First Boston is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Comparing to the other companies, this Credit Suisse First Boston performs on 12 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2005.

We also calculated 50 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$14M16 Sep 2004 South San Francisco, California, United States

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$6M20 Dec 2002 South San Francisco, California, United States

Sabeus Photonics

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$16M11 Dec 2001 California, United States

Ishoni Networks

Electronics
Information Technology
Wireless
$35M05 Mar 2001 San Jose, California, United States

iolon, inc.

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Private Social Networking
$53M01 Mar 2001 San Jose, California, United States

RightNow Technologies

CRM
Customer Service
Information Technology
Marketing
SaaS
Software
$15M24 Jan 2001 Bozeman, Montana, United States

TrueSAN Networks

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Network Security
Software
$30M17 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Network Elements

$77M04 Jan 2001 -

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$109M26 Sep 2000 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 45
Average round size 77M
Rounds per year 1.73
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$14M16 Sep 2004 South San Francisco, California, United States

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$6M20 Dec 2002 South San Francisco, California, United States

Sabeus Photonics

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$16M11 Dec 2001 California, United States

Ishoni Networks

Electronics
Information Technology
Wireless
$35M05 Mar 2001 San Jose, California, United States

iolon, inc.

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Private Social Networking
$53M01 Mar 2001 San Jose, California, United States

RightNow Technologies

CRM
Customer Service
Information Technology
Marketing
SaaS
Software
$15M24 Jan 2001 Bozeman, Montana, United States

TrueSAN Networks

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Network Security
Software
$30M17 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Network Elements

$77M04 Jan 2001 -

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$109M26 Sep 2000 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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