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Novell

Founders Drew Major Ray Noorda

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.20
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 5
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Security
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Enterprise Software
  • Identity 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oblix

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Identity Management
Information Technology
Internet
Security
Shopping
$10M14 Dec 1998 Cupertino, California, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 0.20
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oblix

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Identity Management
Information Technology
Internet
Security
Shopping
$10M14 Dec 1998 Cupertino, California, United States
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