Nortel Networks

Nortel Networks is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1914. The venture was found in North America in Canada. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Toronto.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Web Hosting, Internet. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CoreExpress, BLADE Network Technologies, TriVergent Communications

The typical startup value when the investment from Nortel Networks is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Nortel Networks performs on 28 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2000.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Nortel Networks, startups are often financed by Accel, Oak Investment Partners, Techxas Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oak Investment Partners, Accel, Redpoint. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pilot House Ventures, Greylock Partners, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC.

The current fund was established by Kshitij Kumar.

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