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Lehman Brothers

Founders Robert Lehman

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Total investments 106
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$32M
Portfolio companies 76
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 36
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 54
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Internet
  • Manufacturing
  • Search Engine
Summary

Lehman Brothers appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1850. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York.

The fund was created by Robert Lehman. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2000. When the investment is from Lehman Brothers the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Lehman Brothers works on 20 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2007.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Software. 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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 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 Qunar.com, Palo Alto Networks, Auxilium Pharmaceuticals. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Lehman Brothers, startups are often financed by Accel, Clearstone Venture Partners, Austin Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Accel, Redpoint, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, Clearstone Venture Partners, Viola Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MyShape

E-Commerce
Retail
Search Engine
Shopping
$12M06 Oct 2008 Glendale, California, United States

Palo Alto Networks

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Management Software
Network Security
Security
Security Services (B2B)
$27M18 Aug 2008 San Jose, California, United States

VideoIQ

Analytics
Security
Video
$10M10 Jul 2008 Massachusetts, United States

Jaxtr

Mobile
VoIP
Wireless
$10M23 Jun 2008 California, United States

NileGuide

Restaurants
Social Media
Travel
$8M05 Jun 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Storwize

Data Center
Data Storage
Real Time
$19M02 Apr 2008 Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

PEAK Surgical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$21M04 Feb 2008 Palo Alto, California, United States

Lucky Pai

Cosmetics
E-Commerce
Jewelry
Shopping
$25M01 Feb 2008 Shanghai, China

Qunar.com

Search Engine
Tourism
Travel
$10M21 Nov 2007 Beijing, Beijing, China

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Total investments 106
Average round size 32M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 36
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 54
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MyShape

E-Commerce
Retail
Search Engine
Shopping
$12M06 Oct 2008 Glendale, California, United States

Palo Alto Networks

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Management Software
Network Security
Security
Security Services (B2B)
$27M18 Aug 2008 San Jose, California, United States

VideoIQ

Analytics
Security
Video
$10M10 Jul 2008 Massachusetts, United States

Jaxtr

Mobile
VoIP
Wireless
$10M23 Jun 2008 California, United States

NileGuide

Restaurants
Social Media
Travel
$8M05 Jun 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Storwize

Data Center
Data Storage
Real Time
$19M02 Apr 2008 Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

PEAK Surgical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$21M04 Feb 2008 Palo Alto, California, United States

Lucky Pai

Cosmetics
E-Commerce
Jewelry
Shopping
$25M01 Feb 2008 Shanghai, China

Qunar.com

Search Engine
Tourism
Travel
$10M21 Nov 2007 Beijing, Beijing, China
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