Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

Total investments

13

Average round size

38M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.21

Lead investments

2

Exits

8

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailInformation TechnologySaaSTelecommunicationsWeb HostingCommunications Infrastructure

Summary

In 1959 was created Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, startups are often financed by Polaris Partners, Oak Investment Partners, DFJ. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sprout Group, WR Hambrecht, TH Lee.Putnam Internet Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Telecom Partners, TVM Capital, Stolberg Equity Partners.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Communications Infrastructure, Web Hosting. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Edupoint, Blue292, Currenex. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Hamilton James.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette works on 33 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2000.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
2
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.21
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (3)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Software (3)
  • Telecommunications (2)
  • Communications Infrastructure (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (11)
  • France (1)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
28
Avg. valuation at time of investment
43M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
18
Avg. multiplicator
0.36

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Soapstone Networks 13 Sep 1999 Software, Telecommunications, Network Hardware, Communications Infrastructure Late Stage Venture 40M United States, Massachusetts, Burlington
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