Firsthand Capital Management

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.