Optical Capital Group

Total investments

18

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

12

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

5

Areas of investment
InfrastructureInternetManufacturingHardwareTelecommunicationsOutsourcingWeb HostingOptical CommunicationNetwork HardwarePrivate Social Networking

Summary

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

The average startup value when the investment from Optical Capital Group is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Optical Capital Group performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2005. The high activity for fund was in 2001.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Service Industry. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Hyperchip, CODEON, YottaYotta.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Optical Capital Group, startups are often financed by TechnoCap, Next47, Vertex Ventures Israel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Grosvenor Funds, TechnoCap, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), The Vertical Group, Sofinnova Investments.

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Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
3
Exits
5
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Optical Communication (8)
  • Network Hardware (5)
  • Telecommunications (4)
  • Internet (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Canada (3)
Peak activity year
2001

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
2
Avg. multiplicator
0.02

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CENiX 23 Oct 2001 Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Wireless Early Stage Venture 34M United States, Pennsylvania, Allentown
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