Global Catalyst Partners

Total investments

54

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

2.25

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.57

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSemiconductorConsumer ElectronicsElectronicsTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

In 1999 was created Global Catalyst Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Redwood Shores. The company was established in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Arthur Schneiderman, Kamran Elahian, Koji Osawa. The overall number of key employees were 3.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Telecommunications, Enterprise Software. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Soundhound, GROOVE X, Raksul. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. When the investment is from Global Catalyst Partners the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Global Catalyst Partners performs on 13 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2006.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Global Catalyst Partners, startups are often financed by Walden International, Sequoia Capital, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, New Enterprise Associates, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Venrock.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
54
Lead investments
2
Exits
8
Rounds per year
2.25
Follow on index
0.57
Investments by industry
  • Semiconductor (22)
  • Electronics (15)
  • Manufacturing (15)
  • Mobile (11)
  • Telecommunications (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (41)
  • China (5)
  • Japan (8)
Peak activity year
2006

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
65M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.11
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

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Chelsio Communications 14 Nov 2002 Network Security, Cloud Data Services, Data Center, Web Hosting Early Stage Venture 18M United States, California, Sunnyvale
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Zhongjie Letao 01 Oct 2014 E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Retail Seed 463K Beijing, Fangshan, China

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