J & W Seligman

Total investments

78

Average round size

40M

Portfolio companies

67

Rounds per year

0.49

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

33

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyB2BEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingTelecommunicationsWeb HostingOptical Communication

Summary

In 1864 was created J & W Seligman, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Silver Peak, HomeGain.com, YOUcentric. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Web Hosting, E-Commerce.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this J & W Seligman works on 13 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from J & W Seligman is 100-500 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2005. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2000.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the J & W Seligman, startups are often financed by TCV, Star Ventures, Greylock Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Integral Capital Partners, Chase Capital Partners, BancBoston Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TeleSoft Partners, Sofinnova Investments, Pamlico Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
78
Lead investments
10
Exits
33
Rounds per year
0.49
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Internet (27)
  • Software (25)
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Enterprise Software (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (77)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
26
Avg. valuation at time of investment
71M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.03
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ClearLogic 20 Dec 2001 Software, Semiconductor Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California, San Jose
Myplace 01 Apr 2021 Internet, Internet of Things Seed United States, California, San Francisco
NeoPlanet 11 Jul 2000 Internet, Search Engine, Web Development Early Stage Venture 23M United States, Arizona, Tempe

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