Essex Investment Management

Total investments

22

Average round size

42M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

0.47

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

13

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingEvent ManagementTelecommunicationsOptical CommunicationCommunications Infrastructure

Summary

Essex Investment Management appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1976. 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 Boston.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 participants. Despite the Essex Investment Management, startups are often financed by OneLiberty Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Sprout Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Bowman Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Prism Venture Management, Polaris Partners.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Essex Investment Management is 100-500 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2005. This Essex Investment Management works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Communications Infrastructure. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CenterPoint Broadband Technologies, Novera Optics, Epicentric. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
0
Exits
13
Rounds per year
0.47
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Telecommunications (5)
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Internet (4)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (17)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Australia (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • Portugal (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
451M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
11.01
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Alcatel Communications 19 Jul 2000 Internet, Telecommunications, Communications Infrastructure Late Stage Venture 40M United States, Massachusetts
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