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Dimension Data

Founders David Shein Patrik Hansson

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$39M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.12
Lead investments 1
Exits 3
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Security
  • Information Technology
  • Wireless
  • IT Infrastructure
Summary

In 1983 was created Dimension Data, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Bryanston. The company was established in Africa in South Africa.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Dimension Data, startups are often financed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, Andreessen Horowitz. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Thomvest Ventures.

This organization was formed by David Shein, Patrik Hansson.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Dimension Data performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pindrop, Highfive, ShieldX Networks. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Cloud Computing, Risk Management. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SmartWage

Information Technology
Internet
$2M05 Apr 2022 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Meeting Software
SaaS
Software
Video Conferencing
$32M07 Feb 2018 Redwood City, California, United States

IT Infrastructure
Professional Networking
Wireless
$46M28 Jan 2018 Cupertino, California, United States

ShieldX Networks

Cloud Security
Information Technology
Security
Software
$25M12 Dec 2017 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 39M
Rounds per year 0.12
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SmartWage

Information Technology
Internet
$2M05 Apr 2022 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Meeting Software
SaaS
Software
Video Conferencing
$32M07 Feb 2018 Redwood City, California, United States

IT Infrastructure
Professional Networking
Wireless
$46M28 Jan 2018 Cupertino, California, United States

ShieldX Networks

Cloud Security
Information Technology
Security
Software
$25M12 Dec 2017 San Jose, California, United States
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