NETGEAR

Total investments

4

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.16

Lead investments

1

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareMachine LearningWellnessConsumer SoftwareHardwareConsumer ElectronicsDigital MediaEmbedded SoftwarePublic SafetyArt

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
4
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (3)
  • Hardware (2)
  • Wellness (1)
  • Digital Media (1)
  • Public Safety (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (4)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
1.71

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Meural 16 Nov 2017 Software, Hardware, Electronics, Internet of Things, Home Decor, Art Early Stage Venture 5M United States, New York, New York
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