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EchoStar

Founders David Drucker

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.29
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 7
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Wireless
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Communications Infrastructure
Summary

EchoStar appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1980. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Englewood.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WildBlue, WildBlue, StarBand Communications. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 2 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Digital Media, Hardware. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the EchoStar, startups are often financed by Time Warner Investments, Pacesetter Capital Group, Mobius Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Liberty Media, Cisco Investments, YAS Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Telesat Canada, TV Guide.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this EchoStar performs on 41 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 40 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. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The current fund was established by David Drucker.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tarana Wireless

Communications Infrastructure
Mobile
Wireless
$24M21 Feb 2020 Milpitas, California, United States

Widevine Technologies

Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
Music
Network Hardware
Security
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Video
$15M14 Dec 2009 Seattle, Washington, United States

Sling Media

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
TV Production
$46M31 Jan 2006 California, United States

Entropic

Digital Entertainment
Media and Entertainment
Semiconductor
Social
TV
$25M04 Jan 2006 San Diego, California, United States

WildBlue

Aerospace
Information Services
Travel
$50M18 Jan 2000 Carlsbad, California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 0.29
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tarana Wireless

Communications Infrastructure
Mobile
Wireless
$24M21 Feb 2020 Milpitas, California, United States

Widevine Technologies

Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
Music
Network Hardware
Security
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Video
$15M14 Dec 2009 Seattle, Washington, United States

Sling Media

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
TV Production
$46M31 Jan 2006 California, United States

Entropic

Digital Entertainment
Media and Entertainment
Semiconductor
Social
TV
$25M04 Jan 2006 San Diego, California, United States

WildBlue

Aerospace
Information Services
Travel
$50M18 Jan 2000 Carlsbad, California, United States
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