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Dain Rauscher Wessels

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Total investments 35
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 0.37
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 17
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • E-Commerce
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chameleon Systems

Network Hardware
Semiconductor
$47M05 Feb 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Iospan Wireless

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Wireless
$47M15 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Lara Networks

Information Technology
Innovation Management
Manufacturing
Product Design
$40M23 Oct 2000 San Jose, California, United States

Voci

Application Performance Management
Service Industry
Speech Recognition
$4M22 Sep 2000 California, United States

Verbind

Marketing Automation
Real Time
Software
$35M02 Aug 2000 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

DataCore Software

Cloud Storage
Information Technology
Software
Virtual Desktop
$35M31 Jul 2000 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Internet
Marketing
Optical Communication
$63M26 Jul 2000 Santa Clara, California, United States

E-Commerce
Internet
Online Auctions
$39M07 Jun 2000 New York, New York, United States

SandCraft

Hardware
Manufacturing
Product Design
$19M01 Jun 2000 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 35
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 0.37
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chameleon Systems

Network Hardware
Semiconductor
$47M05 Feb 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Iospan Wireless

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Wireless
$47M15 Jan 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Lara Networks

Information Technology
Innovation Management
Manufacturing
Product Design
$40M23 Oct 2000 San Jose, California, United States

Voci

Application Performance Management
Service Industry
Speech Recognition
$4M22 Sep 2000 California, United States

Verbind

Marketing Automation
Real Time
Software
$35M02 Aug 2000 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

DataCore Software

Cloud Storage
Information Technology
Software
Virtual Desktop
$35M31 Jul 2000 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Internet
Marketing
Optical Communication
$63M26 Jul 2000 Santa Clara, California, United States

E-Commerce
Internet
Online Auctions
$39M07 Jun 2000 New York, New York, United States

SandCraft

Hardware
Manufacturing
Product Design
$19M01 Jun 2000 San Jose, California, United States
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