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NETGEAR

Founders Mark Merrill Patrick Lo

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Wellness
  • Digital Media
  • Public Safety
Summary

NETGEAR is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1996. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Jose. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The current fund was established by Mark Merrill, Patrick Lo.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This NETGEAR works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 3 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Home Decor, Embedded Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Swrve, Meural, Jiobit.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the NETGEAR, startups are often financed by Harvard Business School Angels Chicago, Sandalphon Capital, Lior Ron. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wakestream Ventures, Third Kind Venture Capital, Techstars Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Act Venture Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Circle Media

Digital Media
Software
Wellness
$20M22 Feb 2019 Portland, Oregon, United States

Meural

Art
Electronics
Hardware
Home Decor
Internet of Things
Software
$5M16 Nov 2017 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 4
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Circle Media

Digital Media
Software
Wellness
$20M22 Feb 2019 Portland, Oregon, United States

Meural

Art
Electronics
Hardware
Home Decor
Internet of Things
Software
$5M16 Nov 2017 New York, New York, United States
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