Highland Capital Partners

Summary

Highland Capital Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1988. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Highland Capital Partners works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Highland Capital Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Bob Higgins, Paul Maeder. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Highland Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Sigma Partners, Index Ventures, DCM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Highland Europe, GV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sigma Partners, Atlas Venture, Accel.

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 most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Auris Health, Inc., Starent Networks, Qihoo 360 Technology.