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Lucent Venture Partners

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Total investments 54
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 2.25
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 21
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Manufacturing
  • Internet
  • Video
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kailight Photonics

Web Hosting
$4M18 Jan 2006 Center District

Cloud Computing
Software
Telecommunications
$16M05 Jan 2006 Ontario

Mobilitec

Delivery
Management Information Systems
Software
$12M07 Feb 2005 California, United States

CipherMax

Compliance
Government
Security
$20M10 Oct 2003 San Jose, California, United States

Wave7 Optics

Communication Hardware
Telecommunications
Video
$30M09 Sep 2003 Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

BayPackets

Internet
Software
Telecommunications
$21M10 Mar 2003 Fremont, California, United States

CipherMax

Compliance
Government
Security
$25M24 Sep 2002 San Jose, California, United States

Alopa Networks

Digital Media
Infrastructure
Software
$12M18 Jul 2002 San Jose, California, United States

Wave7 Optics

Communication Hardware
Telecommunications
Video
$23M27 Feb 2002 Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

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Total investments 54
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 2.25
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 21
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kailight Photonics

Web Hosting
$4M18 Jan 2006 Center District

Cloud Computing
Software
Telecommunications
$16M05 Jan 2006 Ontario

Mobilitec

Delivery
Management Information Systems
Software
$12M07 Feb 2005 California, United States

CipherMax

Compliance
Government
Security
$20M10 Oct 2003 San Jose, California, United States

Wave7 Optics

Communication Hardware
Telecommunications
Video
$30M09 Sep 2003 Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

BayPackets

Internet
Software
Telecommunications
$21M10 Mar 2003 Fremont, California, United States

CipherMax

Compliance
Government
Security
$25M24 Sep 2002 San Jose, California, United States

Alopa Networks

Digital Media
Infrastructure
Software
$12M18 Jul 2002 San Jose, California, United States

Wave7 Optics

Communication Hardware
Telecommunications
Video
$23M27 Feb 2002 Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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