Ignite Group

Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Redwood City.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline AlphaBlox, Cymbet, Vocal Point We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Electronics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Ignite Group, startups are often financed by Accel, New Enterprise Associates, St. Paul Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Accel, New Enterprise Associates, Zodiac Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Merrill Lynch Ventures, TCV.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Ignite Group performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2001. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.