Juniper Networks

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Sunnyvale, United States

Total investments

54

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

43

Rounds per year

1.93

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

26

Areas of investment
InfrastructureInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityCloud ComputingTelecommunications

Summary

Juniper Networks appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1996. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Sunnyvale.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NetScreen Technologies, FireEye, SiByte. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Infrastructure, Enterprise Software.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. This Juniper Networks works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The average startup value when the investment from Juniper Networks is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

The current fund was established by Pradeep Sindhu. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Juniper Networks, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Accel.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
54
Lead investments
3
Exits
26
Rounds per year
1.93
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (26)
  • Information Technology (14)
  • Telecommunications (13)
  • Enterprise Software (13)
  • Security (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (51)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
321M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.37
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

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