Lucent Venture Partners

Total investments

54

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

2.25

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

21

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InfrastructureInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingVideoSemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

In 1998 was created Lucent Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

When the investment is from Lucent Venture Partners the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Lucent Venture Partners works on 10 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2004. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Lucent Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Venrock, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Venrock, Bessemer Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Venrock, Oak Investment Partners.

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 Optical Communication, Infrastructure. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Octane Software, BayPackets, Ishoni Networks The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
54
Lead investments
6
Exits
21
Rounds per year
2.25
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Software (23)
  • Telecommunications (19)
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Internet (9)
  • Video (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (48)
  • Canada (3)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
270M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.69
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cognigine 04 Aug 2000 Internet, Manufacturing, Network Security, Semiconductor, Electronics, Telecommunications, Optical Communication Early Stage Venture 14M United States, California, Fremont
NewPort Communications 11 Jan 2000 Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Optical Communication Early Stage Venture 23M United States, California, Irvine
SmartRent 13 Nov 2018 Real Estate, Software, Information Technology, Property Management, Internet of Things, Smart Home, Rental Property Early Stage Venture 5M United States, Arizona, Scottsdale

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