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HighBar Partners

Founders John H. Kim Roy Thiele-Sardina

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 0.74
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 11
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • Security
  • Information Technology
  • Big Data
Summary

In 1995 was created HighBar Partners, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the HighBar Partners, startups are often financed by TELUS Ventures, Spark Capital, Pequot Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Prism Venture Management, Partech, Citrix Systems. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sternhill Partners, Prism Venture Management, Partech.

The real fund results show that this VC is 41 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this HighBar Partners works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from HighBar Partners the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cloud Computing, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight HyperGridu2122, Blazent, Clustrix. The fund has no exact preference 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. 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 requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by John H. Kim, Roy Thiele-Sardina. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HyperGrid™

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
IaaS
PaaS
Private Cloud
SaaS
$15M12 Sep 2018 California, United States

Zettaset, Inc.

Big Data
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Software
$10M01 Nov 2012 California, United States

CollegeWikis

Developer Tools
Education
Information Technology
Messaging
Social Media
Universities
$2M08 Oct 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Computer
Enterprise Software
Software
$6M08 Mar 2004 Mountain View, California, United States

Ingrian Networks

Enterprise Software
Privacy
Security
$14M05 Jan 2004 Redwood City, California, United States

Ingrian Networks

Enterprise Software
Privacy
Security
$22M19 Feb 2002 Redwood City, California, United States

Surgient

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Training
$10M05 Jun 2000 Austin, Texas, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.74
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HyperGrid™

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
IaaS
PaaS
Private Cloud
SaaS
$15M12 Sep 2018 California, United States

Zettaset, Inc.

Big Data
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Software
$10M01 Nov 2012 California, United States

CollegeWikis

Developer Tools
Education
Information Technology
Messaging
Social Media
Universities
$2M08 Oct 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Computer
Enterprise Software
Software
$6M08 Mar 2004 Mountain View, California, United States

Ingrian Networks

Enterprise Software
Privacy
Security
$14M05 Jan 2004 Redwood City, California, United States

Ingrian Networks

Enterprise Software
Privacy
Security
$22M19 Feb 2002 Redwood City, California, United States

Surgient

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
Training
$10M05 Jun 2000 Austin, Texas, United States
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