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Essex Investment Management

Founders Joseph McNay

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$42M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 0.47
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 13
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Manufacturing
  • Internet
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Manufacturing
$90M01 Dec 2001 Massachusetts, United States

PhotonEx

Event Management
Events
$90M15 Oct 2001 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

PhotonEx

Event Management
Events
$80M15 Nov 2000 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Microbia

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Industrial
$23M02 Nov 2000 Massachusetts, United States

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

Alcatel Communications

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Telecommunications
$40M19 Jul 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Axsun Technologies

Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$36M19 Jan 2000 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 22
Average round size 42M
Rounds per year 0.47
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Manufacturing
$90M01 Dec 2001 Massachusetts, United States

PhotonEx

Event Management
Events
$90M15 Oct 2001 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

PhotonEx

Event Management
Events
$80M15 Nov 2000 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Microbia

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Industrial
$23M02 Nov 2000 Massachusetts, United States

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

Alcatel Communications

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Telecommunications
$40M19 Jul 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Axsun Technologies

Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$36M19 Jan 2000 Massachusetts, United States
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