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Crystal Internet Venture Funds

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.60
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 8
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Mobile
  • Advertising Platforms
  • Email
Summary

In 1997 was created Crystal Internet Venture Funds, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Cleveland.

The important activity for fund was in 2000. This Crystal Internet Venture Funds works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Crystal Internet Venture Funds, startups are often financed by Walden International, Crystal Internet Ventures, Red Rock Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden International, Intel Capital, Rand Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Walden International, Advantage Capital, VantagePoint Capital Partners.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight uGetHeard, WebEver, Infravio. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Identity Management, Marketing.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Synacor

Advertising Platforms
Developer Tools
Email
Identity Management
Internet
Mobile
Software
$17M24 Oct 2006 Buffalo, New York, United States

LGC Wireless

Manufacturing
Public Relations
Wireless
$13M03 Sep 2005 San Jose, California, United States

Document Management
Enterprise Applications
Software
$11M02 Apr 2004 San Francisco, California, United States

Exavio

Broadcasting
Digital Media
Video
Video Streaming
$14M29 Apr 2003 San Jose, California, United States

Synacor

Advertising Platforms
Developer Tools
Email
Identity Management
Internet
Mobile
Software
$6M25 Mar 2003 Buffalo, New York, United States

RF Solutions

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$12M11 Sep 2000 Georgia, United States

KnowledgeFirst

Education
Financial Services
Marketplace
$12M19 Jul 2000 California, United States

Infravio

Enterprise Software
Software
$6M01 May 2000 Cupertino, California, United States

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Total investments 15
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.60
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Synacor

Advertising Platforms
Developer Tools
Email
Identity Management
Internet
Mobile
Software
$17M24 Oct 2006 Buffalo, New York, United States

LGC Wireless

Manufacturing
Public Relations
Wireless
$13M03 Sep 2005 San Jose, California, United States

Document Management
Enterprise Applications
Software
$11M02 Apr 2004 San Francisco, California, United States

Exavio

Broadcasting
Digital Media
Video
Video Streaming
$14M29 Apr 2003 San Jose, California, United States

Synacor

Advertising Platforms
Developer Tools
Email
Identity Management
Internet
Mobile
Software
$6M25 Mar 2003 Buffalo, New York, United States

RF Solutions

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$12M11 Sep 2000 Georgia, United States

KnowledgeFirst

Education
Financial Services
Marketplace
$12M19 Jul 2000 California, United States

Infravio

Enterprise Software
Software
$6M01 May 2000 Cupertino, California, United States
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