Novell

Total investments

9

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.20

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

5

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareSecurityWomen'sShoppingIdentity Management

Summary

Novell appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1979. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Provo. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the Novell, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, The Entrepreneurs' Fund, Sumitomo Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, Robertson Stephens Coinvestment Fund, Presidio Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ONSET Ventures, Accel, Goldman Sachs.

The important activity for fund was in 2000. Comparing to the other companies, this Novell performs on 21 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Publishing. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sendmail, Arcot Systems, Oblix. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
0
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.20
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Security (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Internet (4)
  • Enterprise Software (3)
  • Identity Management (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
26
Avg. valuation at time of investment
78M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.44

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Oblix 14 Dec 1998 E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Security, Shopping, Identity Management Late Stage Venture 10M United States, California, Cupertino
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