Dain Rauscher Wessels

Total investments

35

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

32

Rounds per year

0.37

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

17

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareTrainingManufacturingSecurityConsultingVoIP

Summary

Dain Rauscher Wessels is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1929. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Minneapolis.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Pluris, beenz.com, SandCraft The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, E-Commerce. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Dain Rauscher Wessels, startups are often financed by Convergence Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Siemens Mustang Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, Robertson Stephens Partners, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, Information Technology Ventures, Foundation Capital.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2003. When the investment is from Dain Rauscher Wessels the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Dain Rauscher Wessels performs on 18 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
35
Lead investments
0
Exits
17
Rounds per year
0.37
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Internet (9)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (34)
  • South Africa (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
30M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.53
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Metro Optix 26 Jul 2000 Internet, Marketing, Optical Communication Early Stage Venture 63M United States, California, Santa Clara
Pacific Edge Software LLC 22 May 2000 Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Delivery Early Stage Venture 26M United States, Washington, Bellevue
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