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Lycos Ventures

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 7
Lead investments 0
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Natural Resources
  • Information Services
  • Information Technology
Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Pittsburgh. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The real fund results show that this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Lycos Ventures performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2006.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Hillman Company, Shelter Growth Capital Partners, Mellon Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Asset Management Ventures (AMV), Asset Management Company, Primus Venture Partners.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Family, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Proteus Digital Health, Princeton eCom, ShopExpert.com. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less 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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Proteus Digital Health

Health Care
Medical
Mobile
Pharmaceutical
01 May 2001 Redwood City, California, United States

Brainbench

$3M08 Dec 1999 Virginia, United States

PlanetFeedback

Customer Service
Internet
Web Development
$6M03 Dec 1999 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 7M
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.43

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Proteus Digital Health

Health Care
Medical
Mobile
Pharmaceutical
01 May 2001 Redwood City, California, United States

Brainbench

$3M08 Dec 1999 Virginia, United States

PlanetFeedback

Customer Service
Internet
Web Development
$6M03 Dec 1999 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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