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Firsthand Capital Management

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$37M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.48
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 6
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Semiconductor
  • Manufacturing
  • Wireless
  • Telecommunications
  • GPS
Summary

In 1993 was created Firsthand Capital Management, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Jose.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Firsthand Capital Management, startups are often financed by Storm Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada, Origin Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vision Capital, Schneider Electric, Putnam Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Crosslink Capital, Convexa Capital Ventures, Next47.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CenterPoint Broadband Technologies, Luminous Networks, Celox Networks We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Electronics, Wireless. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2001. This Firsthand Capital Management works on 17 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2007.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sprout

Software
$3M30 Mar 2022 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

SoloPower

Clean Energy
Energy Efficiency
Solar
$30M30 Jul 2007 San Jose, California, United States

Solaicx

Electronics
Industrial
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$27M08 May 2007 San Jose, California, United States

Silicon Optix

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$18M07 Jan 2004 San Jose, California, United States

Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
$16M15 Oct 2003 Antioch, California, United States

AuthenTec

Biometrics
Cyber Security
Identity Management
Mobile
NFC
Security
Semiconductor
Sensor
$2M17 Apr 2003 Florida, United States

Polaris Networks

Software
Telecommunications
Wireless
$52M18 Mar 2002 Massachusetts, United States

GPS
Semiconductor
Wireless
$12M23 Oct 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Celox Networks

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Telecommunications
$80M16 Jul 2001 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 37M
Rounds per year 0.48
Peak activity year 2001
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sprout

Software
$3M30 Mar 2022 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

SoloPower

Clean Energy
Energy Efficiency
Solar
$30M30 Jul 2007 San Jose, California, United States

Solaicx

Electronics
Industrial
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$27M08 May 2007 San Jose, California, United States

Silicon Optix

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$18M07 Jan 2004 San Jose, California, United States

Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
$16M15 Oct 2003 Antioch, California, United States

AuthenTec

Biometrics
Cyber Security
Identity Management
Mobile
NFC
Security
Semiconductor
Sensor
$2M17 Apr 2003 Florida, United States

Polaris Networks

Software
Telecommunications
Wireless
$52M18 Mar 2002 Massachusetts, United States

GPS
Semiconductor
Wireless
$12M23 Oct 2001 San Jose, California, United States

Celox Networks

Communications Infrastructure
Internet
Telecommunications
$80M16 Jul 2001 Massachusetts, United States
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