Globespan Capital Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

208

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

106

Rounds per year

9.90

Lead investments

31

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

69

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileEnterprise SoftwareBig DataManufacturingSecurityAdvertising

Summary

Globespan Capital Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2003. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston.

This organization was formed by Andrew Goldfarb, Barry Schiffman. The overall number of key employees were 2.

This Globespan Capital Partners works on 0 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Globespan Capital Partners the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Globespan Capital Partners, startups are often financed by DFJ, JAFCO Asia, Pitango Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Viola Ventures, Sequoia Capital Israel, Battery Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viola Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Palo Alto Networks, Roku, Inc., Upwork. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Wireless. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Cloud/InfrastructureB2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Geo focus
Generalist

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Last fund

Fund size
USD 380000000
Fund raised date
2007-09-17

Analytics

Total investments
208
Lead investments
31
Exits
69
Rounds per year
9.90
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Software (86)
  • Enterprise Software (50)
  • Information Technology (29)
  • Mobile (27)
  • Analytics (19)
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Investments by region
  • United States (195)
  • Spain (1)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • South Korea (2)
  • Israel (3)
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Peak activity year
2006
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
180M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.02
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Blackwave 30 Sep 2009 Social Media, Web Hosting, Video Streaming Late Stage Venture 7M United States, Massachusetts
Silk 07 Jul 2021 Enterprise Software, Cloud Infrastructure, Database Early Stage Venture 55M United States, Massachusetts, Needham

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