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MCI

Founders George Still

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$108M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.21
Lead investments 3
Exits 4
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Areas of investment

  • Communications Infrastructure
  • Telecommunications
  • Internet
  • Mobile
  • Service Industry
Summary

In 1974 was created MCI, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Washington.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Service Industry, Security. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NetScreen Technologies, SmartPipes, Tasman Networks.

The current fund was established by George Still.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2005. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from MCI the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. This MCI works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2000.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the MCI, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, The Carlyle Group, Norwest Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Dell, XO Communications. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SmartPipes

B2B
Infrastructure
Software
$20M23 Jul 2001 London, England, United Kingdom

Yipes

Communications Infrastructure
Service Industry
Telecommunications
$200M05 Feb 2001 San Francisco, California, United States

Hardware
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
$31M11 Apr 2000 Maryland, United States

Cidera

Content
Internet
Logistics
$36M24 Mar 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 10
Average round size 108M
Rounds per year 0.21
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 3
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SmartPipes

B2B
Infrastructure
Software
$20M23 Jul 2001 London, England, United Kingdom

Yipes

Communications Infrastructure
Service Industry
Telecommunications
$200M05 Feb 2001 San Francisco, California, United States

Hardware
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
$31M11 Apr 2000 Maryland, United States

Cidera

Content
Internet
Logistics
$36M24 Mar 2000 San Francisco, California, United States
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