Lehman Brothers

Total investments

106

Average round size

32M

Portfolio companies

76

Rounds per year

0.62

Lead investments

36

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

54

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingAdvertisingTelecommunicationsSearch EngineWireless

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
106
Lead investments
36
Exits
54
Rounds per year
0.62
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Software (26)
  • Telecommunications (17)
  • Internet (14)
  • Manufacturing (14)
  • Search Engine (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (94)
  • Germany (2)
  • Denmark (1)
  • China (3)
  • Japan (1)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
177M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.20
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Comstellar Technologies 12 Jul 2000 Software, Network Hardware, Communications Infrastructure Early Stage Venture 135M United States, California
Isilon Systems 31 Mar 2004 Content, Web Hosting, Cloud Storage Late Stage Venture 15M United States, Washington, Seattle

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