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Novell Ventures

Founders Chris Stone

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 4
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 3
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Computer
  • IT Infrastructure
  • Cyber Security
Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Provo.

The fund was created by Chris Stone.

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 E-Commerce, IT Infrastructure. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline FaceTime Communications, Inc, Edgix Corporation, enCommerce Inc. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009. Opposing the other organizations, this Novell Ventures works on 46 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Entrepreneurs' Fund, TH Lee Putnam Ventures, Sumitomo Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Israel Seed Partners, Formula Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Edgix Corporation

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Internet
01 Sep 1999 New York, United States

enCommerce Inc.

Software
$15M28 Jul 1999 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 13M
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Edgix Corporation

Content
Delivery
Internet
01 Sep 1999 New York, United States

enCommerce Inc.

Software
$15M28 Jul 1999 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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